Quicksort is very efficient in practice and has an expected running time O (n log(n)). Why  would anyone ever use Merge Sort over Quicksort?

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Quicksort is very efficient in practice and has an expected running time O (n log(n)). Why  would anyone ever use Merge Sort over Quicksort?

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