derwinmcgeary / derwinmcgeary/MergeSort

Multithreaded performance is terrible

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Single-threaded MergeSort works great, multi-threaded is extremely slow and crashes after a few thousand threads. Possible resolution - allow a maximum of 4 threads (to match CPU cores) since I'm pretty sure that any other benefit from threading is illusory anyway.

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