Given an undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ with edge weights $w_e$ for $e \in E$, we want to compute a tree $T = (V, E')$ that spans $V$ using $E' \subseteq E$ and minimizes $\sum_{e \in E'} w_e$. Describe an efficient algorithm for the task and analyze the running time of your algorithm.
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