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- From: schnitzi@longwood.cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
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- Subject: Re: Fastest Sorting Algorithm?
- Date: 6 Apr 1996 12:01:13 -0500
- Organization: University of Central Florida
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- Scott <slary61@maine.maine.edu> writes:
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- >"And how would you make it faster still?" He couldn't come up with
- >> >much...end of interview.
- >> Mybe they meant tweaking stratigies for quicksort like how
- >> to choose a pivot element. Who knows.
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- >> --
- >It's hard to beat the sort invented by Hoare at O(2log n). As far
- >as comparison sorts go, I don't think its been beaten.
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- Is it really 2logn? My understanding was that a sort couldn't be
- less than nlogn... More info, please.
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