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From: mrys@ethz.UUCP (Michael Rys)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Quicksort vs. Heapsort
Message-ID: <2033@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 89 15:00:40 GMT
Reply-To: mrys@ethz.UUCP (Michael Rys)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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A little bit late, but...

In 1987 a guy called Carlson (I think) improved the Heapsort-Algorithm
by using a binary search for inserting into the sorted list. In this
way Heapsort is always faster than Quicksort for very larg n.

Cheers.../Michael

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