Re: No merge sort? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jason M. Felice
Subject Re: No merge sort?
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Msg-id 20030407201003.GH2003@argo.eraserhead.net
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In response to Re: No merge sort?  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 03:36:10PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> "Ron Peacetree" <rjpeace@earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> > AFAIK, there are only 3 general purpose internal sorting techniques
> > that have O(n) behavior:
> 
> Strictly speaking there are no sorting algorithms that have worst-case time
> behaviour better than O(nlog(n)). Period.
> 

Not true.

http://www.elsewhere.org/jargon/html/entry/bogo-sort.html

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice

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