eli5 what’s the point of having so many sorting algorithms if the primary objective is to sort, i mean why can’t we just use one algorithm for all

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eli5 what’s the point of having so many sorting algorithms if the primary objective is to sort, i mean why can’t we just use one algorithm for all

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Different requirements. Memory usage, number of writes, number of cpu instructions executed, you optimize for any of those and you get a different algorithm