Complexity of Stable Minimum Storage Merging by Symmetric Comparisons

대칭비교에 의한 Stable Minimum Storage 머징의 복잡도

Symmerge is a stable minimum storage algorithm for merging that needs $O(mlog\frac{n}{m})$ element comparisons, where m and n are the sizes of the input sequences with m ${\leqq}$ n. According to the lower bound for merging, the algorithm is asymptotically optimal regarding the number of comparisons. The objective of this paper is to consider the relationship between m and n for the spanning case with the recursion level m-1.