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- In computer science, heapsort is a comparison-based sorting algorithm which can be thought of as "an implementation of selection sort using the right data...
- include bubble sort and quicksort. Selection sorts include cycle sort and heapsort. Whether the algorithm is serial or parallel. The remainder of this discussion...
- optimal worst-case performance. It begins with quicksort, it switches to heapsort when the recursion depth exceeds a level based on (the logarithm of) the...
- was introduced by J. W. J. Williams in 1964, as a data structure for the heapsort sorting algorithm. Heaps are also crucial in several efficient graph algorithms...
- comparison-based sorting algorithm. A variant of heapsort, it was invented and published by Edsger Dijkstra in 1981. Like heapsort, smoothsort is an in-place algorithm...
- introduced by J. W. J. Williams in 1964 as a data structure for implementing heapsort. A binary heap is defined as a binary tree with two additional constraints:...
- allocated for the tree, as opposed to in-place algorithms such as quicksort or heapsort. On most common platforms, this means that heap memory has to be used,...
- algorithm for sorting. Overall, it is slightly faster than merge sort and heapsort for randomized data, particularly on larger distributions. Quicksort is...
- implementations. Adaptive sort Heapsort Cartesian tree Levcopoulos, C.; Petersson, O. (1993-05-01). "Adaptive Heapsort". Journal of Algorithms. 14 (3):...
- – 29 September 2012) was a computer scientist best known for inventing heapsort and the binary heap data structure in 1963 while working for Elliot Bros...