The Performance of Linear Time Suffix Sorting Algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Simon J. Puglisi;William F. Smyth;Andrew Turpin

  • Affiliations:
  • Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia;McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada;University of Melbourne, Australia

  • Venue:
  • DCC '05 Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Sorting all the suffixes of a string x = x[1..n] into lexicographical order is the most computationally expensive step in the Burrows-Wheeler Transformation for lossless compression. One tool for achieving a suffix sort is the suffix array.Suffix arrays are also the basis for a variety of compressed text indexing systems that allow arbitrary queries, for example the scheme of Grossi and Vitter.