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The objective behind the Twin Sort technique is to sort the list of unordered data elements efficiently and to allow efficient and simple arrangement of data elements within the data structure with optimization of comparisons and iterations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Veeresh D , Thimmaraju S. N , Ravish G. K

The analyses of many algorithms and data structures (such as digital search trees) for searching and sorting are based on the representation of the keys involved as bit strings and so count the number of bit comparisons. On the other hand,…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-14 James Allen Fill , Svante Janson

The two most prominent solutions for the sorting problem are Quicksort and Mergesort. While Quicksort is very fast on average, Mergesort additionally gives worst-case guarantees, but needs extra space for a linear number of elements.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Stefan Edelkamp , Armin Weiß

Smart Sort algorithm is a "smart" fusion of heap construction procedures (of Heap sort algorithm) into the conventional "Partition" function (of Quick sort algorithm) resulting in a robust version of Quick sort algorithm. We have also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-24 Niraj Kumar Singh , Soubhik Chakraborty

This paper gives a straightforward self-contained proof of the formula for the variance of the number of comparisons used by the Quicksort sorting algorithm when pivots are chosen uniformly at random. The result has been known for some time…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-06-22 Vasileios Iliopoulos , David Penman

Modern comparison sorts like quicksort suffer from performance inconsistencies due to suboptimal pivot selection, leading to $(O(N^2))$ worst-case complexity, while in-place merge sort variants face challenges with data movement overhead.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jia Xu Wei

In this paper we are proposing a new sorting algorithm, List Sort algorithm, is based on the dynamic memory allocation. In this research study we have also shown the comparison of various efficient sorting techniques with List sort. Due the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-30 Adarsh Kumar Verma , Prashant Kumar

Quicksort on the fly returns the input of $n$ reals in increasing natural order during the sorting process. Correctly normalized the running time up to returning the l-th smallest out of n seen as a process in l converges weakly to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Mahmoud Ragab , Uwe Roesler

We present an average case analysis of a variant of dual-pivot quicksort. We show that the used algorithmic partitioning strategy is optimal, i.e., it minimizes the expected number of key comparisons. For the analysis, we calculate the…

We consider the fundamental problem of internally sorting a sequence of $n$ elements. In its best theoretical setting QuickMergesort, a combination Quicksort with Mergesort with a Median-of-$\sqrt{n}$ pivot selection, requires at most $n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Stefan Edelkamp , Armin Weiß

Sorting is one of the oldest computing problems and is still very important in the age of big data. Various algorithms and implementation techniques have been proposed. In this study, we focus on comparison based, internal sorting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Hantao Zhang , Baoluo Meng , Yiwen Liang

Because of unmatched improvements in CPU performance, memory transfers have become a bottleneck of program execution. As discovered in recent years, this also affects sorting in internal memory. Since partitioning around several pivots…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Conrado Martínez , Markus Nebel , Sebastian Wild

This work presents a comparison for the performance of sequential sorting algorithms under four different modes of execution, the sequential processing mode, a conventional multi-threading implementation, multi-threading with OpenMP Library…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mohammad Fasha

Pbit, besides its simplicity, is definitely the fastest list sorting algorithm. It considerably surpasses all already known methods. Among many advantages, it is stable, linear and be made to run in place. I will compare Pbit with algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David S. Płaneta

Sorting a set of items is a task that can be useful by itself or as a building block for more complex operations. That is why a lot of effort has been put into finding sorting algorithms that sort large sets as fast as possible. But the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Timo Bingmann , Jasper Marianczuk , Peter Sanders

TimSort is an intriguing sorting algorithm designed in 2002 for Python, whose worst-case complexity was announced, but not proved until our recent preprint. In fact, there are two slightly different versions of TimSort that are currently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Nicolas Auger , Vincent Jugé , Cyril Nicaud , Carine Pivoteau

Quicksort is an instructive classroom approach to parallel sorting on distributed memory parallel computers with many opportunities for illustrating specific implementation alternatives and tradeoffs with common communication interfaces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Jesper Larsson Träff

In this note the precise minimum number of key comparisons any dual-pivot quickselect algorithm (without sampling) needs on average is determined. The result is in the form of exact as well as asymptotic formul\ae{} of this number of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Daniel Krenn

We provide a smoothed analysis of Hoare's find algorithm and we revisit the smoothed analysis of quicksort. Hoare's find algorithm - often called quickselect - is an easy-to-implement algorithm for finding the k-th smallest element of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-04-27 Mahmoud Fouz , Manfred Kufleitner , Bodo Manthey , Nima Zeini Jahromi

Various decision support systems are available that implement Data Mining and Data Warehousing techniques for diving into the sea of data for getting useful patterns of knowledge (pearls). Classification, regression, clustering, and many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Mohammad Khalid Imam Rahmani