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| Making a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_sort" target="_top">radix sort</a> |
| stable requires the usage of an external copy of the data. A stable hybrid |
| algorithm also requires a stable comparison-based algorithm, and these |
| are generally slow. LSD <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_sort" target="_top">radix |
| sort</a> uses an external copy of the data, and provides stability, |
| along with likely being faster (than a stable hybrid sort), so that's probably |
| a better way to go for integer and floating-point types. It might make |
| sense to make a stable version of <code class="literal"><code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="../../../boost/sort/spreadsort/string_sort_idp48004640.html" title="Function template string_sort">string_sort</a></code></code> |
| using external memory, but for simplicity this has been left out for now. |
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