How to efficiently remove duplicates from an array without using Set

Question

I was asked to write my own implementation to remove duplicated values in an array. Here is what I have created. But after tests with 1,000,000 elements it took very long ti

Answer 1

For a sorted Array, just check the next index:

//sorted data!
public static int[] distinct(int[] arr) {
    int[] temp = new int[arr.length];

    int count = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
        int current = arr[i];

        if(count > 0 )
            if(temp[count - 1] == current)
                continue;

        temp[count] = current;
        count++;
    }

    int[] whitelist = new int[count];
    System.arraycopy(temp, 0, whitelist, 0, count);

    return whitelist;
}