Nice overview of sorting methods, thanks for sharing!

I also looked a bit into radix and distribution sort at some point over the past year, but in the end high performance sorting is actually too big of a thing to just do quickly on the side, as your post well shows :") In fact I wasn't aware of the associativity issues for radix sort. That's definitely something to keep in mind and investigate.

Will definitely refer back to it once I'm looking at sorting again in more detail at some point!