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| Radix-based sorting allows the data to be divided up into more than 2 pieces |
| per iteration, and for cache-friendly versions, it normally cuts the data |
| up into around a thousand pieces per iteration. This allows many fewer |
| iterations to be used to complete sorting the data, enabling performance |
| superior to the <span class="emphasis"><em>𝑶(N*log(N))</em></span> comparison-based sorting |
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