ruby - 如何编写归并排序？

Question

我正在尝试实现合并排序，但在运行我的代码时出现堆栈级别太深 (SystemStackError) 错误。我不确定可能是什么问题。

def merge_sort(lists)
  lists if lists.count == 1

  middle  = lists[0..(lists.count / 2) - 1 ]
  left = lists[0..middle.count - 1]
  right = lists[middle.count..lists.count]

  x = merge_sort(left)
  y = merge_sort(right)
end

merge_sort [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]

任何帮助都会很棒!

Answer 1

来自 wikipedia :

def mergesort(list)
  return list if list.size <= 1
  mid   = list.size / 2
  left  = list[0...mid]
  right = list[mid...list.size]
  merge(mergesort(left), mergesort(right))
end

def merge(left, right)
  sorted = []
  until left.empty? || right.empty?
    if left.first <= right.first
      sorted << left.shift
    else
      sorted << right.shift
    end
  end
  sorted.concat(left).concat(right)
end