According to wikipedia, heapsort runs more quickly on computers with small or slow data caches. How could having a slow data cache improve performance ?
It is compared to merge sort.
In the same paragraph merge sort is mentioned as a competitor, in that context it means that heap sort gets faster compared to merge sort with small cache sizes.
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