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Article #1068Re: Advice needed for fastest sort algorthm
From: John A. Slagel
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:17
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:17
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John Slagel (Me!) writes: >>> Definately the quick sort. Its even built into ANSI C specs, so it >>> should be easy to implement. Look up quicksort in your C manual. If >>> I remember right, bubble sort works in O(n*n) and quicksort works in >>> O(n*log n). >>> >>> In other words, if you're sorting n objects, QuickSort takes "on the Order >>> of" n*log n steps, while bubble sort takes "on the order of" n*n steps. >>> Dave Roberts chokes at my stupidy: >Ack!!! People, remember that bubble sort has a *worst* case time of >n!. It can be quite fast if most things are sorted. >Dave Roberts >Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. >Network Products Division >david.roberts@amd.com Ack!!! Me, John Slagel, who is a soon-to-be-interviewing senior in C.S., gives up all hopes of getting a job with AMD :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John A. Slagel, email: jas37876@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jas37876 From: jas37876@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John A. Slagel) Subject: Re: Advice needed for fastest sort algorthm References: <6759@news.duke.edu> <BxD5pt.DyI@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov8.012628.23338@menudo.uh.edu> <1992Nov10.185527.3584@amd.com> Message-ID: <BxIwoJ.Hr7@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:17:07 GMT Lines: 27