quicksortjs/README.md

A quicksort implementation in javascript

# QuicksortJs

  A quicksort implementation in JavaScript. 

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- ``quicksortjs.sort`` is a functional implementation that chooses the first element as the pivot. 

- ``quicksortjs.sort2`` is an imperative approach that chooses a random pivot. 

## Benchmarks

Firefox (SpiderMonkey):

```
quicksortjs.sort:  1406.68ms
quicksortjs.sort2: 724.75ms
```

NodeJS (V8):

```
$ time cat IntArray.txt | xargs quicksortjs
  
real    0m2.390s
user    0m1.037s
sys	 0m0.087s
```
```
$ time cat IntArray.txt | xargs quicksortjs -v2

real    0m2.329s
user    0m0.727s
sys	 0m0.077s
```
  
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