#bytewise-radix-sort

Bytewise Radix Sort

Bytewise Radix Sort Bytewise radix sort sorts fixed-width keys by processing one 8-bit byte at a time. Since each byte has 256 possible values, every pass uses a counting array of size 256. It is a practical form of radix sort for machine integers, binary records, and fixed-size keys because byte extraction is cheap and bucket arrays fit easily in cache. Problem Given an array $A$ of $n$ fixed-width unsigned...