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Sort an array of integers using Counting sort

Counting sort is the fastest sorting algorithm when the following criteria are met:

• You only have integers
• You know the minimum and the maximum value contained in the array

Note: Not only is it better to sort an integer array using Counting sort, it will actually not work if you try to sort anything else (like floats), so if things don't work, that's where you should be looking

npm install contingsort

var countingSort = require('countingsort');

var myArray = [5,3,2,0,6,4,3,6,10,0,3,2];

countingSort(myArray, 0, 10); // should sort the array to [0,0,2,2,3,3,3,4,5,6,6,10]

Note: Like the Array#sort() method in Javascript, it will not make a new array, but modify the one passed in.

http://jsperf.com/countsort

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