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1764 points fatihky | 1 comments | 13 Oct 16 15:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sonoffett ◴[13 Oct 16 15:58 UTC] No.12701639[source]▶
quicksort is O(n^2) which is definitely not the "best big-O" for sorting.
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1. Jiig ◴[13 Oct 16 16:08 UTC] No.12701718[source]▶
Its worst case is O(n^2) sure, so heap sort would be better if you know that your data would hit the worst case scenario of quick sort every time.