We all know that there are different types of sorting algorithms, and most of us would have heard of the names of these different types of algorithms at various times in our programming careers. The big difference between sorting algorithms and data structures is that the former always has the same goal, irrespective of which type of algorithm is used. That makes it very easy and important for us to compare the different sorting algorithms on various fronts, which in most of the cases boils down to speed and memory usage. We need to make this determination before we pick a particular sorting algorithm based on the type of the data that we have at hand.
Keeping the above in mind, we will compare and contrast the following three different types of algorithms:
- Insertionsort
- Mergesort
- Quicksort
Mergesort and Quicksort are the algorithms that v8 engine uses internally to sort the data; when the dataset size is too small (<10) the Mergesort is employed, else quicksort...