Quick sort implementation in python

sturlamolden sturlamolden at yahoo.no
Fri Sep 26 16:24:01 EDT 2008


On 26 Sep, 08:43, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:

> That depends on the data structure.  Access to a singly-linked list is
> by linear scanning from the front.

Which is one reason why mergesort i preferred over quicksort for
lists. Pythons built-in sort is a variant of mergesort and should be
fast for linked lists and array lists alike.







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