Key points about Radix Sort
- It makes assumptions about the data like the data must be between a range of elements.
- The input array must have elements with the same radix and width.
- Radix sort works on sorting based on an individual digit or letter position.
- We must start sorting from the rightmost position and use a stable algorithm at each position.
- Radix sort is not an in-place algorithm as it uses a temporary count array
Applications, Advantages and Disadvantages of Radix Sort
Radix Sort is a linear sorting algorithm that sorts elements by processing them digit by digit. It is an efficient sorting algorithm for integers or strings with fixed-size keys. Rather than comparing elements directly, Radix Sort distributes the elements into buckets based on each digit’s value. By repeatedly sorting the elements by their significant digits, from the least significant to the most significant, Radix Sort achieves the final sorted order.