[FEA]: Add efficient unstable thread sort
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### Area
CUB
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The thread sort currently only has a stable method, the odd-even transpose sorting network, which has a complexity O(N^2).
### Describe the solution you'd like
Other sorting networks such as Batcher's odd-even mergesort and Parberry's pairwise sort scale much better, with a complexity O(N log^2(N)), so for instance at 16 items/thread they would be 2x faster, at 64 items/thread 4x faster.
The block merge sort has stable and unstable APIs which could select the appropriate thread sort accordingly.
### Describe alternatives you've considered
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