LeetCode in Swift: Sort List

Problem Statement

Sort a linked list in O(n log n) time using constant space complexity.

Original LeetCode problem page

My Solution in Swift

I used a bottom-up iterative merge-sort to solve this problem with O(n log n) time efficiency and O(1) space efficiency. Note that, you cannot use traditional recursive merge-sort to tackle this problem; otherwise, you will end up use O(log n) stack space for recursive function calls, which is unsatisfying of the question requirement.

Try It Yourself

1: each links to a blog post of mine that is dedicated to the problem
2: total execution time of a solution on my MacBook Pro (Late 2013, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3). Each solution is compiled with following command:

$ swiftc -O -sdk `xcrun --show-sdk-path --sdk macosx` json.swift main.swift -o mySolution

The total execution time is the average of 10 runs.
3: these test cases are semi-automatically :P retrieved from LeetCode Online Judge system and are kept in JSON format
4: each Xcode project includes everything (my Swift solution to a problem, its JSON test cases and a driver code to test the solution on those test cases)

Problem1Time2Test Cases3My Xcode Project4
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More Problems Solved in Swift

My full list of LeetCode problems attempted using Swift