© 1993 by British Computer Society
A Simple Modification of Xunrang and Yuzhang'S HEAPSORT Variant Improving its Complexity Significantly
FB Informatik, Universitat Dortmund, Postfach 500 500 4600 Dortmund 50, Germany
Xunrang and Yuzhang have presented the HEAPSORT variant NEWheapsort whose worst case complexity is (4/3)n log2n+O(n). By a simple modification this algorithm can be improved to have a better average case complexity and a worst case complexity of only (7/6)n log2n+O(n).
Received April 1992.
* FB Informatik, Universität Dortmund, Postfach 500 500 4600 Dortmund 50, Germany