XSort - Sorting algorithms (including Timsort!)

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 12.04.2012 18:50, Xinok wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 April 2012 at 05:25:52 UTC, Nathan M. Swan wrote:
>> On Thursday, 12 April 2012 at 03:04:49 UTC, Xinok wrote:
>>> I just wanted to share this. I started a project a few weeks ago on
>>> Github to implement several sorting algorithms in D. In total, there
>>> are 8 modules at the moment, each implementing a sorting algorithm or
>>> combination thereof.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Xinok/XSort
>>>
>>> I just finished Timsort today. It's working, it's stable, but I need
>>> to spend a little more time better optimizing it.
>>
>> Cool! To make it a bit more generic, may I suggest making all the
>> inputs only have to be "isInputRange", and have it converted to an array.
>>
>> NMS
>
> This incurs different behavior as random-access ranges would be sorted
> in place and input ranges wouldn't be. I could add separate functions to
> make this behavior explicit, but I see little point in doing so. It's
> quite easy to convert an input range to an array yourself:
>
> import std.array, std.range;
>
> auto inputRangeToArray(R)(R range)
> if(isInputRange!R && !isInfinite!R)
> {
> auto app = Appender!(ElementType!(R)[])();
> static if(hasLength!R) app.reserve(range.length);
> app.put(range);
> return app.data;
> }

Indeed and there is a standard function array(...) that does this very 
thing.

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Dmitry Olshansky