JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures: Sorting - Merge Sort

In computer science, merge sort (also commonly spelled mergesort) is an efficient, general-purpose, comparison-based sorting algorithm. Most implementations produce a stable sort, which means that the implementation preserves the input order of equal elements in the sorted output. Mergesort is a divide and conquer algorithm that was invented by John von Neumann in 1945.

An example of merge sort. First divide the list into the smallest unit (1 element), then compare each element with the adjacent list to sort and merge the two adjacent lists. Finally all the elements are sorted and merged.

A recursive merge sort algorithm used to sort an array of 7 integer values. These are the steps a human would take to emulate merge sort (top-down).

Complexity

Name	Best	Average	Worst	Memory	Stable	Comments
Merge sort	n log(n)	n log(n)	n log(n)	n	Yes

References

• Wikipedia
• YouTube

The Original Article can be found on https://github.com

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If you accumulate data on which you base your decision-making as an organization, you should probably think about your data architecture and possible best practices.

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Implement Merge Sort Algorithm in JavaScript.

Merge sort is one of the efficient sorting algorithm that applies the principle or uses divide and conquer pattern.

Merge sort divides a given unsorted array into two equal halves sub arrays until the nth (last) array contains a single element. This is based on the fact that array of a single element is always sorted.

Merging of Sorted Arrays

The sub arrays are merged by comparison of the elements of the first array to the second, starting from the first element of both arrays. When compared, the one lesser than is pushed to a single sub array. This action is continued until all the sub arrays are sorted and merged.

merge sort visualization

We are going to use two functions to implement this algorithm viz: mergeSort function and merge function. MergeSort function will recursively divide the unsorted array into nth sub arrays as aforementioned while the merge function will act as the name implies, merging the sub arrays.

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How to deal with sorting algorithms: Merge Sort

Speaking about sorting algorithms, one should always remember: there is more than one approach. Last time we talked about Insertion Sort and worked with one unsorted array. This time we’re going to try a different approach and more complicated pattern — Merge Sort. Our starter pack is two sorted arrays, our task is to combine them into one sorted array.

Let’s crush it!

Actually, our approach is not that different from what we did last time with Insertion Sort. Our first step is to find a minimum integer and remove it from the array but this time we’re checking two arrays instead of one.

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How to implement Merge Sort in javascript

To describe merge sort, let’s just an analogy.

Assume you have a piece of lego that you can break apart. Each sub piece has its own numbers and you keep breaking and breaking until there is one piece each other, with their own numbers.

Here is a diagram to demonstrate how it will looks like:

To understand merge sort, you have to remember the few following things:

• Mergesort
• merge

Here are the steps to follow:

• Step 1: Create a function called mergeSort.
• Step 2: Within mergeSort, create left and right subarray, take the first half of the elements, and copy it into the left subarray. Copy the second half of the elements into the right subarray.
• Step 3: Call Merge sort recursively with left subarray(function itself)
• Step 4: Call Merge sort recursively with right subarray(function itself)
• Step 5: call merge with left subarray, right subarray, the original array itself, with size of the left array, and the size of the right array.

Within the Merge function, you will be comparing elements in the left and right subarray, with i and j as indices for tracking current element to be compared at each array respectively.

i and j starts at 0. You also have another indice,k, which is used to track the most current index which we are moving new elements in. If current left_arr[i] < right_arr[j], move left_arr[i] to arr[k] and increment i and k, else move right_arr[j] to arr[k], and increment j and k.

Here is the code for the mergeSort:

Over here, if there are less than 2 elements then we don’t even need to sort. We put half of the elements into left_arr, another half into right_arr. Then we call mergeSort and divide further into each subarray. Merge is the part that actually sorts things together.

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