Welcome to Merge Sort in Go

Hello, again, dedicated learner! You've already mastered the essentials of Quick Sort, and today, we're venturing into the realm of Merge Sort. Like sorting a shuffled deck of cards, Merge Sort excels in efficiently managing large datasets. Together, we'll explore, implement, and analyze its performance in Go. Ready to advance further on this journey? Let's dive in!

What is Merge Sort?

Merge Sort is an efficient and popular sorting technique in computer science, deploying a divide-and-conquer approach similar to Quick Sort. The main steps involve:

  1. Splitting the array into halves.
  2. Sorting each half individually.
  3. Merging the sorted halves back into a complete array.
Implementation and Explanation

We will now cover all of the code required to implement Merge Sort, starting with a merge function:

The merge() function combines two sorted halves, the left and right arrays, back into a resulting array. Using pointers to traverse the left and right arrays, as well as the resulting array, it compares elements from the left and right arrays. The smaller element is placed into the resulting array. If the right array is exhausted or the current element from the left array is smaller or equal, the element from the left array is placed into the resulting array, and the pointer for the left array is incremented. Otherwise, the element from the right array is placed into the resulting array, and the pointer for the right array is incremented. This process continues until all elements are merged into the resulting array.

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