When implemented well, it can be about two or three times faster than its main competitors, merge sort and heapsort.
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An ordinary merge sort using four working files organizes them as a pair of input files and a pair of output files.
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In this case, ordinary merge sort factor is 2.0, while polyphase overall factor is ~ 2.73.
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Other examples of adaptive sorting algorithms are adaptive heap sort, adaptive merge sort, patience sort, smoothsort, splaysort and Timsort.
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:( ec ) Bucket sort and merge sort seem to be two general sorting algorithms that are reasonably suitable for human implementation.
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However, it must then repeat the process for the remaining A and B subarrays for the current level of the merge sort.
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Similarly, the merge sort algorithm sorts an unsorted list by dividing the list into halves and sorting these first before merging the results.
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The polyphase merge sort fixes this discrepancy by padding the actual distribution with imaginary " dummy runs " to simulate an ideal run distribution.
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This table roughly corresponds to the reduction factor per dataset moved tables shown in fig 3 and fig 4 of polyphase merge sort . pdf
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"' Block sort "', or block merge sort, is a sorting algorithm combining at least two stable sorting.
