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Quicksort is an efficient, general-purpose
sorting algorithm.
Quicksort was
developed by
British computer scientist Tony ****e in 1959 and
published in...
- the
related quicksort sorting algorithm, it was
developed by Tony ****e, and thus is also
known as ****e's
selection algorithm. Like
quicksort, it is efficient...
- exchange, selection, merging, etc.
Exchange sorts include bubble sort and
quicksort.
Selection sorts include cycle sort and heapsort.
Whether the algorithm...
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performance and (asymptotically)
optimal worst-case performance. It
begins with
quicksort, it
switches to
heapsort when the
recursion depth exceeds a
level based...
- well-implemented
quicksort, it has the
advantages of very
simple implementation and a more
favorable worst-case O(n log n) runtime. Most real-world
quicksort variants...
- Consequently,
quicksort needs O(log2 n)
additional space.
Although this non-constant
space technically takes quicksort out of the in-place category,
quicksort and...
- sort, but it is
equivalent to
quicksort as both
recursively partition the
elements based on a pivot, and
since quicksort is in-place and has
lower overhead...
- partial_
quicksort(A, i, j, k) is if i < j then p ← pivot(A, i, j) p ← partition(A, i, j, p) partial_
quicksort(A, i, p-1, k) if p < k-1 then partial_
quicksort(A...
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basis of
efficient algorithms for many problems, such as
sorting (e.g.,
quicksort,
merge sort),
multiplying large numbers (e.g., the
Karatsuba algorithm)...
- used
primarily as an
educational tool. More
efficient algorithms such as
quicksort, timsort, or
merge sort are used by the
sorting libraries built into po****r...
