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plural quicksorts
(computing) A sorting algorithm that operates by recursively partitioning the items to be sorted into two sets. quotations examples
Somewhat surprisingly, the average behaviour of quicksort is the same as the best behaviour.
1987, Åke Wikström, Functional Programming Using Standard ML
third-person singular simple present quicksorts, present participle quicksorting, simple past and past participle quicksorted
(transitive, computing) To sort with such an algorithm. quotations examples
The first and last subsets are then recursively quicksorted.
1991, Maguire et al, Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications