Skip sorting when there is only one node #28
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If numItems <= nodeSize then there is no reason to perform the Hilbert index sort since there is only the root box and one node/tier of boxes below it.
For many use cases this wont provide a meaningful performance gain. However, in the case of repeated and varied input counts for which many may be smaller than nodeSize it is significant (I am seeing around 25-40% increase in speed for some of my use cases in c++), and it comes at almost no cost (a single compare) in the case of larger input counts.