An Implementation of Merge Sort in C

Following C code is the implementation of merge sort, with the time complexity of O(nlogn). It was used in my current project to sort 148 million integers. At first I used bubbled sort, which took me hours to have the 148M integers sorted, because the time complexity of bubble sort is O(n^2). After replacing the sorting algorithm with merge sort, the time of sorting reduced to less than 10 mins. Amazing improvement! Although I have heard of the importance of sorting/searching algorithm for years, it was the first time I realize the magic of algorithms. 

The merge sort below was found in Internet. Sorry that I forgot to record the hyperlink of the webpage. Only a few changes were made by me. 

void Merge(int* input, long p, long r)
{
	long mid = floor((p + r) / 2);
	long i1 = 0;
	long i2 = p;
	long i3 = mid + 1;

	// Temp array
	int* temp=new int[r-p+1];

	// Merge in sorted form the 2 arrays
	while ( i2 <= mid && i3 <= r )
		if ( input[i2] < input[i3] )
			temp[i1++] = input[i2++];
		else
			temp[i1++] = input[i3++];

	// Merge the remaining elements in left array
	while ( i2 <= mid )
		temp[i1++] = input[i2++];

	// Merge the remaining elements in right array
	while ( i3 <= r )
		temp[i1++] = input[i3++];

	// Move from temp array to master array
	for ( int i = p; i <= r; i++ )
		input[i] = temp[i-p];

	delete [] temp;
}

// inputs:
//	p - the start index of array input
//	r - the end index of array input
void Merge_sort(int* input, long p, long r)
{
	if ( p < r )
	{
		long mid = floor((p + r) / 2);
		Merge_sort(input, p, mid);
		Merge_sort(input, mid + 1, r);
		Merge(input, p, r);
	}
}



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