Quick Sort Visualization
What is Quick Sort Algorithm?
Quicksort is an in-place sorting algorithm. Developed by British computer scientist Tony Hoare in 1959 and published in 1961, it is still a commonly used algorithm for sorting. When implemented well, it can be somewhat faster than merge sort and about two or three times faster than heapsort.
Quicksort is a divide-and-conquer algorithm. It works by selecting a ‘pivot’ element from the array and partitioning the other elements into two sub-arrays, according to whether they are less than or greater than the pivot. For this reason, it is sometimes called partition-exchange sort. The sub-arrays are then sorted recursively. This can be done in-place, requiring small additional amounts of memory to perform the sorting.
Quicksort is a comparison sort, meaning that it can sort items of any type for which a “less-than” relation (formally, a total order) is defined. Efficient implementations of Quicksort are not a stable sort, meaning that the relative order of equal sort items is not preserved.
Mathematical analysis of quicksort shows that, on average, the algorithm takes {\displaystyle O(n\log {n})}O(n\log {n}) comparisons to sort n items. In the worst case, it makes {\displaystyle O(n^{2})}O(n^{2}) comparisons.
Source: Wikipedia
JavaScript implementation
function quickSort(arr, left, right) { var i = left; var j = right; var tmp; var pivotidx = (left + right) / 2; var pivot = parseInt(arr[pivotidx.toFixed()]); /* partition */ while (i <= j) { while (parseInt(arr[i]) < pivot) i++; while (parseInt(arr[j]) > pivot) j--; if (i <= j) { tmp = arr[i]; arr[i] = arr[j]; arr[j] = tmp; i++; j--; } } /* recursion */ if (left < j) this.quickSort(arr, left, j); if (i < right) this.quickSort(arr, i, right); return arr; }
Go implementation
func quicksort(arr []int) []int { if len(arr) <= 1 { return arr } else { pivot := arr[0] smaller := make([]int, 0) greater := make([]int, 0) for _, num := range arr[1:] { if num <= pivot { smaller = append(smaller, num) } else { greater = append(greater, num) } } smaller = quicksort(smaller) greater = quicksort(greater) return append(append(smaller, pivot), greater...) } }