Why Is Dual-Pivot Quicksort Fast?
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چکیده
I discuss the new dual-pivot Quicksort that is nowadays used to sort arrays of primitive types in Java. I sketch theoretical analyses of this algorithm that offer a possible, and in my opinion plausible, explanation why (a) dual-pivot Quicksort is faster than the previously used (classic) Quicksort and (b) why this improvement was not already found much earlier.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1511.01138 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015