If a high-volume e-commerce site employs a randomized quicksort algorithm for daily sales transaction sorting, which consequence follows regarding execution?

💡 Explanation

Randomized quicksort utilizes random pivots to avoid worst-case scenarios, meaning that the expected runtime is O(n log n) because this random pivot selection reduces the likelihood of encountering a consistently bad pivot. Therefore, a more balanced average-case performance is achieved, rather than guaranteeing immediate sorted order or linear time.

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