M erge sort is based on the divide-and-conquer paradigm. Its worst-case running time has a lower order of growth
than insertion sort. Since we are dealing with subproblems, we state each subproblem as sorting a subarray A[p .. r].
Initially, p = 1 and r = n, but these values change as we recurse through subproblems.
To sort A[p .. r]:
1. Divide Step
If a given array A has zero or one element, simply return; it is already sorted. Otherwise, split A[p .. r]
into two subarrays A[p .. q] and A[q + 1 .. r], each containing about half of the elements of A[p .. r].
That is, q is the halfway point of A[p .. r].
2. Conquer Step
Conquer by recursively sorting the two subarrays A[p .. q] and A[q + 1 .. r].
3. Combine Step
Combine the elements back in A[p .. r] by merging the two sorted subarrays A[p .. q] and A[q + 1 .. r] into
a sorted sequence. To accomplish this step, we will define a procedure MERGE (A, p, q, r).
Note that the recursion bottoms out when the subarray has just one element, so that it is trivially sorted.
归并操作
/* C program for Merge Sort */
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<stdio.h>
// Merges two subarrays of arr[].
// First subarray is arr[l..m]
// Second subarray is arr[m+1..r]
void merge(int arr[], int l, int m, int r)
{
int i, j, k;
;
int n2 = r - m;
/* create temp arrays */
int L[n1], R[n2];
/* Copy data to temp arrays L[] and R[] */
; i < n1; i++)
L[i] = arr[l + i];
; j < n2; j++)
R[j] = arr[m + + j];
/* Merge the temp arrays back into arr[l..r]*/
i = ; // Initial index of first subarray
j = ; // Initial index of second subarray
k = l; // Initial index of merged subarray
while (i < n1 && j < n2)
{
if (L[i] <= R[j])
{
arr[k] = L[i];
i++;
}
else
{
arr[k] = R[j];
j++;
}
k++;
}
/* Copy the remaining elements of L[], if there
are any */
while (i < n1)
{
arr[k] = L[i];
i++;
k++;
}
/* Copy the remaining elements of R[], if there
are any */
while (j < n2)
{
arr[k] = R[j];
j++;
k++;
}
}
/* l is for left index and r is right index of the
sub-array of arr to be sorted */
void mergeSort(int arr[], int l, int r)
{
if (l < r)
{
// Same as (l+r)/2, but avoids overflow for
// large l and h
;
// Sort first and second halves
mergeSort(arr, l, m);
mergeSort(arr, m+, r);
merge(arr, l, m, r);
}
}
/* UTILITY FUNCTIONS */
/* Function to print an array */
void printArray(int A[], int size)
{
int i;
; i < size; i++)
printf("%d ", A[i]);
printf("\n");
}
/* Driver program to test above functions */
int main()
{
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printf("Given array is \n");
printArray(arr, arr_size);
mergeSort(arr, , arr_size - );
printf("\nSorted array is \n");
printArray(arr, arr_size);
;
}