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Re: optimizing Short circuiting sort method based on [M]

From:
david nicol
Date:
July 5, 2004 16:06
Subject:
Re: optimizing Short circuiting sort method based on [M]
Message ID:
1089068760.1003.25.camel@plaza.davidnicol.com
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 18:24, Glenn Linderman wrote:

> I'm not sure offhand how many result elements are at the crossover 
> between where bubble sort is best and heapsort becomes best, but I 
> believe both of  those will generate entries in sorted order faster than 
> sorting the whole array to throw away most of the results.

That is what I was trying to figure out, and I would like peer review
on my result of bubble for five or less and heap for six or more.  M=5
is the judgement call, giving always two (after the unavoidable initial
comparison) in insertion mode whereas bubble gives an expected two with
random data.


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