A polyphase merge sort is a variation of a bottom-up merge sort that sorts a list using an initial uneven distribution of sub-lists , primarily used for external sorting, and...
Tournament sort is a sorting algorithm. It improves upon the naive selection sort by using a priority queue to find the next element in the sort. In the naive selection...
Cocktail shaker sort, also known as bidirectional bubble sort, cocktail sort, shaker sort , ripple sort, shuffle sort, or shuttle sort, is an extension of bubble sort. The algorithm extends...
Pigeonhole sorting is a sorting algorithm that is suitable for sorting lists of elements where the number of elements and the length of the range of possible key values are...
Bucket sort, or bin sort, is a sorting algorithm that works by distributing the elements of an array into a number of buckets. Each bucket is then sorted individually, either...
Cascade merge sort is similar to the polyphase merge sort but uses a simpler distribution. The merge is slower than a polyphase merge when there are fewer than six files,...
