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Bubble sort, sometimes referred to as sinking sort, is a simple sorting algorithm that repeatedly steps through the input list element by element, comparing the current element with the one after it, swapping their values if needed. These passes through the list are repeated until no swaps have to be performed during a pass, meaning that the ...
For example, if any number of elements are out of place by only one position (e.g. 0123546789 and 1032547698), bubble sort's exchange will get them in order on the first pass, the second pass will find all elements in order, so the sort will take only 2n time.
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Bubble sort is also be very fast and convenient in system management scripts. The same can be said about the occasional bubble sort when coding in “C”; the resulting mnemonic code is very fast and efficient for casual use on relatively smaller data sets/arrays. Fssymington 13:16, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
This issue has implications for different sort algorithms. Some common internal sorting algorithms include: Bubble Sort; Insertion Sort; Quick Sort; Heap Sort; Radix Sort; Selection sort; Consider a Bubblesort, where adjacent records are swapped in order to get them into the right order, so that records appear to “bubble” up and down ...
Shellsort, also known as Shell sort or Shell's method, is an in-place comparison sort. It can be seen as either a generalization of sorting by exchange (bubble sort) or sorting by insertion (insertion sort). [3] The method starts by sorting pairs of elements far apart from each other, then progressively reducing the gap between elements to be ...
The section Bubble sort claims: This algorithm is highly inefficient, and is rarely used[citation needed], except as a simplistic example. Looks like false to me. Because of the code brevity of the algorithm, it instead should be heavily used on pretty short lists in naive Q&D implementations where a sort is needed.
An example of a list that proves this point is the list (2,3,4,5,1), which would only need to go through one pass of cocktail sort to become sorted, but if using an ascending bubble sort would take four passes. However one cocktail sort pass should be counted as two bubble sort passes. Typically cocktail sort is less than two times faster than ...