/** * Counting sort is an algorithm for sorting a collection * of objects according to keys that are small integers. * * It is an integer sorting algorithm. * * Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_sort * Animated Visual: https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/CountingSort.html */ const countingSort = (arr, min, max) => { // Create an auxiliary resultant array const res = [] // Create the freq array const count = [] let len = max - min + 1 for (let i = 0; i < len; i++) { count[i] = 0 } // Populate the freq array for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { count[arr[i] - min] += 1 } // Create a prefix sum array out of the freq array count[0] -= 1 for (let i = 1; i < count.length; i++) { count[i] += count[i - 1] } // Populate the result array using the prefix sum array for (let i = arr.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) { res[count[arr[i] - min]] = arr[i] count[arr[i] - min]-- } // Copy the result back to back to original array arr = [...res] return arr } /** * Implementation of Counting Sort */ const array = [3, 0, 2, 5, 4, 1] // Before Sort console.log('\n- Before Sort | Implementation of Counting Sort -') console.log(array) // After Sort console.log('- After Sort | Implementation of Counting Sort -') console.log(countingSort(array, 0, 5)) console.log('\n')