One obvious efficiency improvement: sort the integers first, then you can look at adjacent ones. Any number is going to be closest to its neighbour either up or down.
First of all, before making it fast, make it correct. Why is dmin initialized with the length of the array? If the array is 1, 1000, the result of your algorithm will be 2 instead of 999.
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