Add early exit for argsort if array is already sorted #197
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Relative to scalar argsort, SIMD argsort is slower for ordered/sorted arrays. An easy fix is to detect sorted arrays and exit early. This doesn't add much overhead to random arrays but does slightly regress on uniform/constant arrays. But perhaps that trade off is worth it since argsort is fairly faster than scalar argsort for uniform/constant arrays. Benchmarks on AVX2: