Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Third Edition

The bucket sort

The bucket sort algorithm (also known as bin sort) is also a distributed sorting algorithm that separates the elements into different buckets (smaller arrays), and then uses a simpler sorting algorithm, such as the insertion sort (a good algorithm for small arrays), to sort each bucket. It then merges all the buckets into the resultant sorted array.

The following code represents the bucket sort algorithm:

function bucketSort(array, bucketSize = 5) { // {1}  if (array.length < 2) {    return array;  }  const buckets = createBuckets(array, bucketSize); // {2}  return sortBuckets(buckets); // {3}}

For the bucket sort algorithm, we need to specify how many buckets will be used to sort the elements ({1}). By default, we will use 5 buckets. ...