Consider a scenario where you have a limited amount of memory available, and you need to sort a large dataset stored on disk. Discuss the feasibility of using bubble sort in this situation and propose an alternative approach if necessary.

  • Feasible and Efficient
  • Feasible but Inefficient
  • Feasible but Memory Intensive
  • Infeasible on Disk
Using bubble sort in this scenario is infeasible due to its quadratic time complexity, making it highly inefficient for large datasets. A more suitable alternative would be external sorting algorithms like external merge sort, which involve dividing the dataset into smaller chunks that fit into memory and merging them externally.
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