com.icl.saxon.sort

Class QuickSort


public abstract class QuickSort
extends java.lang.Object

This is a generic version of C.A.R Hoare's Quick Sort algorithm. This will handle arrays that are already sorted, and arrays with duplicate keys.

Method Summary

static void
sort(Sortable a, int lo0, int hi0)
This is a generic version of C.A.R Hoare's Quick Sort algorithm.

Method Details

sort

public static void sort(Sortable a,
                        int lo0,
                        int hi0)
This is a generic version of C.A.R Hoare's Quick Sort algorithm. This will handle arrays that are already sorted, and arrays with duplicate keys.
If you think of a one dimensional array as going from the lowest index on the left to the highest index on the right then the parameters to this function are lowest index or left and highest index or right. The first time you call this function it will be with the parameters 0, a.length - 1.
Parameters:
a - a Sortable object
lo0 - index of first element (initially typically 0)
hi0 - index of last element (initially typically length-1)