#production-readiness

Pedagogical quicksort vs. introsort hybrid for latency-sensitive sorting in production

Context The Algorithms repository provides clean, well-commented quicksort implementations across 30+ languages, but its contribution guidelines explicitly prioritize readability over micro-optimizations. The naive pivot selection and recursive structure degrade to O(n²) on already-sorted or duplicate-heavy input, and CI only verifies correctness—not worst-c

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