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Rust just merged two new very fast sort implementations into stdlib (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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 name                                            diff %  speedup 
 slice::sort_large_random                       -65.49%   x 2.90 
 slice::sort_large_strings                      -37.75%   x 1.61 
 slice::sort_medium_random                      -47.89%   x 1.92 
 slice::sort_small_random                        11.11%   x 0.90 
 slice::sort_unstable_large_random              -47.57%   x 1.91 
 slice::sort_unstable_large_strings             -25.19%   x 1.34 
 slice::sort_unstable_medium_random             -22.15%   x 1.28 
 slice::sort_unstable_small_random              -15.79%   x 1.19

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

orlp invented PDQSort and Glidesort. He collaborated with Voultapher on Driftsort.

Driftsort is like a successor to Glidesort.

Glidesort had some issues that prevented it from being merged into std, and which are addressed in Driftsort. IIRC it had something to do with codegen bloat.