Does partition function gives quick sort its locality of reference ? If it does, how ? I mean what is there in quicksort which gives it locality of reference when compared to other algorithms suc...

Say we have an unsorted array and linked list. The worst case when searching for an element for both data structures would be O( n ), but my question is: Would the array still be way faster becaus...

for(int i = 0; i<100; i++) for(int j = 0; j<100; j++) array[j][i] = 0; // array[i][j] = 0; My professor said it was much more costly to initialize a two dimensional array in the first ...