Common prefix skipping, adaptive sort

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Author: theanonymousone

Date: 7/6/2026

Article Summary:
The author describes an in-memory sort algorithm, Orasort, developed while working at Oracle, which uses common prefix skipping, adaptive sorting, and key substring caching to achieve faster performance.