• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.68-72
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• 2009

The suffix array is a data structure storing all suffixes of a string in lexicographical order. It is widely used in string problems instead of the suffix tree, which uses a large amount of memory space. Many researches have shown that not only the suffix array can be built in O(n), but also it can be constructed with a small time and space usage for real-world inputs. In this paper, we analyze a practical suffix sorting algorithm due to Maniscalco and Puglisi [1], and we propose an efficient algorithm which improves Maniscalco-Puglisi's running time.