Quicksort is an efficient sorting algorithm developed by Tony Hoare in 1959. It works by selecting a 'pivot' element and partitioning the other elements into two sub-arrays according to whether they are less than or greater than the pivot. It is slightly faster than merge sort and heapsort for randomized data, and takes O(nlog n) comparisons on average to sort n items. In the worst case, it makes O(n2) comparisons.
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