This doesn't mean we consume N 2 and N log N processor clock cycles in executing those algorithms to perform sorting. However, we can say that we consume about xN 2 and yN log N cycles (excluding the ...

For a sorter like bubble sort, the time grows quadradically longer for a linear increase in the number of inputs; it’s of order O(N²).With a faster sorter like merge-sort, which is O(N*log(N ...