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A sort algorithm which builds a heap, then repeatedly extracts the maximum item. Run time is O(n log n). [
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Demonstrations:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/harrison/Java/sorting-demo.html
Implementations and sample code:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/harrison/Java/HeapSortAlgorithm.java
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Java
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http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Ecopley/665/HSMain.html
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Java
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See also heapsort variants:
adaptive heap sort
,
introspective sort