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Re:Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algori... by nijave on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:47PM (#28790547)
Basically pigeon hole or bucket sorting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_sort which, as another commenter mentioned, are types of non-comparison sorting so you can get near linear times

I think the mainstream sorting algorithms tend to cater towards "mainstream" ordering which tends to be somewhat sorted versus purely random. An example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort

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