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Updating sort algorithms

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#1,233 opened on Feb 16, 2025

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Description

Rust library today uses ipnsort and driftsort for unstable and stable sort respectively.

I'm wondering if it would make sense to switch to them in parallel implementations here too instead of pdqsort and timsort respectively.

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Study the ipnsort and driftsort algorithms, understand the current parallel sort implementation in Rayon, and propose a plan to replace the existing algorithms with the new ones for parallel sorting.
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rust
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backend
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Rustsorting algorithms
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