Why Quick Sort preferred for Arrays and Merge Sort for Linked Lists? – Searching and Sorting – Quick Sort in its general form is an in-place sort. whereas merge sort requires O(N) extra storage, N denoting the array size which may be quite expensive.
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QuickSort on Doubly Linked List – Searching and sorting -. The idea is simple, we first find out pointer to last node. Once we have pointer to last node, we can recursively sort the linked list using pointers to first and last nodes of linked list.