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QuickSort Partition With Duplicate Elements

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What is a potential drawback of the partition implementation shown below when the input array contains a large number of duplicate elements?

public class QuickSortEqualPivot {
    public static int partition(int[] arr, int low, int high) {
        int pivot = arr[high];
        int i = low;
        for (int j = low; j < high; j++) {
            if (arr[j] <= pivot) {
                int temp = arr[i];
                arr[i] = arr[j];
                arr[j] = temp;
                i++;
            }
        }
        int temp = arr[i];
        arr[i] = arr[high];
        arr[high] = temp;
        return i;
    }
}
A

It can lead to unbalanced partitions, degrading QuickSort’s performance.

B

It will cause an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException due to duplicate values.

C

It produces an incorrect sorted order because duplicates are not correctly compared.

D

It swaps the pivot element multiple times unnecessarily, making the sort unstable.

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