Quoting Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com>:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
Why Wikipedia, specifically? There are a lot of places that describe
quicksort. How about just
Note: This implementation of qsort() is designed to avoid the
worst-case complexity of N**2 that is often seen with standard
versions.
I would say that this statement is just false. Worst-case complexity is
still N**2. How about something like:
"""
This implementation of qsort() has worst case complexity of N**2.
However measures were taken that make it very unlikely that for some
random input N**2 swaps will be made. It's still possible to generate
such an input on purpose though. See code below for more details.
"""
Okay:
The quicksort algorithm worst-case is O(N**2), but this implementation
has been designed to avoid that for most real data.
Keep in mind that there is no requirement whatsoever that the qsort()
function uses the quicksort algorithm, even if that is a common way to
implement qsort()
Also, worst-case is worst-case, no matter how unlikely.
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