I'm looking to optimize this linear search: static int linear (const int *arr, int n, int key) { int i = 0; while (i < n) { if (arr [i] >= key) break; ++i; } return i; } The array i...

My goal is to understand why adopting linear search with sentinel is preferred than using a standard linear search. #include <stdio.h> int linearSearch(int array[], int length) { int eleme...

I have an android linear search algorithm for finding duplicate files and packed it in the function public void startSearch() I was able to run it in a separate thread like this class ThreadTest ex...

What is the difference between Linear search and Binary search?

I was wondering if it was possible to return different types depending on the conditions in the function: This code will work if you remove '|| bool' and the 'if/else' statements. Thanks in advanc...

So there is an if-else branch in my program with about 30 if-else statements. This part runs more than 100 times per second, so I saw it as an opportunity to optimize, and made it do binary search ...

Suppose I am having a Collection of object: List<String> myList = populateMyArrayList(); //Here I am having an ArrayList with 1000 elements Which is the better approach: 1 : Mergesort the...

I've been fooling around with a bunch of different ways of searching collections, collections of collections, etc. Doing lots of stupid little tests to verify my understanding. Here is one which bo...

This question is about the efficiency of a linear search vs. the efficiency of a binary search for a pre-sorted array in contiguous storage... I have an application written in fortran (77!). One f...

I am trying to derive the average case running time for deterministic linear search algorithm. The algorithm searches an element x in an unsorted array A in the order A[1], A[2], A[3]...A[n]. It st...