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- From: Scott <slary61@maine.maine.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Fastest Sorting Algorithm?
- Date: 6 Apr 1996 05:16:36 GMT
- Organization: University of Maine System
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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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- Scott
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