Asymptotic analysis of an optimized quicksort algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Marianne Durand

  • Affiliations:
  • Algorithms Project, INRIA Rocquencourt, 78153 Le Chesnay, France

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Jon Bentley and Douglas McIlroy have implemented a fast quicksort for the C standard library in 1993. We consider here the average-case complexity in terms of number of comparisons of this algorithm, and give its asymptotic expansion up to the constant order.