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Mergesort
Mergesort meaning
A divide and conquer sorting algorithm that operates by dividing the items to be sorted into many small lists and gradually merging them together.
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For example, a compiler will not change an implementation of bubble sort to use mergesort instead.
If using efficient sorting such as mergesort or heapsort this is an (n log n) average and worst-case algorithm.
LSD radix sorts have resurfaced as an alternative to high performance comparison-based sorting algorithms (like heapsort and mergesort ) that require O(n ยท log n) comparisons, where n is the number of items to be sorted.
Some divide-and-conquer algorithms such as quicksort and mergesort sort by recursively dividing the list into smaller sublists which are then sorted.
This is faster than performing either mergesort or quicksort over the entire list.