Like the Quick Sort, the Merge Sort uses a divide and conquer method to help sort the data. In a given array, you start to subdivide your array into smaller arrays, sorting the data as you go along, only to merge it back together when you are done. The way you sort the data is…
While the Quicksort is relatively fast, O(nlog(n)) in terms of speed on average, a lot of programmers fear it because they don’t like, understand, or maybe even know about recursion. Recursion is the process of a function calling itself. There is usually a slight penalty for recursion as each function call is slower than if…
