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Implementing quicksort algorithm

I found quicksort algorithm from this book This is the algorithm QUICKSORT (A, p, r) if p < r q = …

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Quicksort with 3-way partition

What is QuickSort with a 3-way partition?

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Why is the minimalist, example Haskell quicksort not a "true" quicksort?

Haskell's website introduces a very attractive 5-line quicksort function, as seen below. quicksort [] = [] quicksort (p:xs) = (quicksort lesser) ++ [p] ++ (quicksort …

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Why does Java's Arrays.sort method use two different sorting algorithms for different types?

Java 6's Arrays.sort method uses Quicksort for arrays of primitives and merge sort for arrays of objects. I believe …

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Why is Insertion sort better than Quick sort for small list of elements?

Isn't Insertion sort O(n^2) > Quicksort O(n log n)...so for a small n, won't the relation be …

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JavaScript quicksort

I have been looking around the web for a while and I am wondering if there is a 'stable' defacto …

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Infinite recursion in JavaScript quicksort?

Here is the quicksort code I wrote. The function doesn't work because it can't reach the base case. If I …

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Why does QuickSort use O(log(n)) extra space?

I have implemented the below quicksort algorithm. Online I've read that it has a space requirement of O(log(n)). …

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When should we use Radix sort?

It seems Radix sort has a very good average case performance, i.e. O(kN): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

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Quicksort: Iterative or Recursive

I learnt about quick sort and how it can be implemented in both Recursive and Iterative method. In Iterative method: …

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