Monday 19 October 2009

How to implement a merge sort on a Doubly Linked List using C#

I have been working on a custom linked list recently and required a sorting algorithm to sort the doubly linked list.

Mergesort works better on linked lists than it does on arrays. It avoids the need for the auxiliary space, and becomes a simple, reliably O(N log N) sorting algorithm. And as an added bonus, it's stable too.

Here is a quick merge sort algorithm in C#.Net 3.5 (Note - T is my custom node interface) :

private T Merge_Sort(T first)

{

if (first == null || first.Next == null)

return first;


T second = Split(first);

first = Merge_Sort(first);

second = Merge_Sort(second);

return Merge(first, second);

}

private T Split(T item)

{

if (item == null || item.Next == null)

return null;

T second = item.Next;

item.Next = second.Next;


second.Next = Split(second.Next);

return second;

}

private T Merge(T first,

T second)

{

if (first == null)

return second;


if (second == null)

return first;

// If both are not null, we will run the comparer

// If first is less than second

if (first.CompareTo(second) < 0)

{

first.Next = Merge(first.Next, second);

first.Next.Previous = first;

first.Previous = default(T);


return first;

}

else

{

second.Next = Merge(first, second.Next);

second.Next.Previous = second;

second.Previous = default(T);

return second;

}

}

For the full implementation of the Custom Doubly Linked List, look at this post.

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