This was educational because I learned about Sorting Networks. I didn't hear of them in CS undergrad algorithms, perhaps because they can be thought of as a sp

This was educational because I learned about Sorting Networks. I didn't hear of them in CS undergrad algorithms, perhaps because they can be thought of as a special case or optimization, rather than fundamental and generic variable-length sort algos. It's a simple concept, and forms the basis of all the sort optimizations described here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_network