What is the difference between arrays.sort and collections.sort

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Active 2 months ago. Viewed 48k times. Improve this question. Josh Morrison Josh Morrison 7, 23 23 gold badges 64 64 silver badges 85 85 bronze badges. Binary search is not a sorting algorithm.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Also, for what it's worth, notice that Arrays. Improve this answer. Mark Elliot Mark Elliot The sort on the primitive arrays uses quicksort, though since for primitives the stability property is neither needed nor meaningful. Example of Collections. Sunny Sunny 9 9 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. I know Arrays' sort is using binary search for sort No, you don't know any such thing. It doesn't do that. See the Javadoc. Seth Hoenig Seth Hoenig 6, 5 5 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges.

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