Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API

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A new implementation of Branchless Quicksort has been developed, outperforming std:sort and pdqsort in benchmarks on various hardware platforms. The implementation is available as a single header file on GitHub, with both C and C++ APIs.

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Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API

6/5/2026, 2:00:58 PM

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