A Benchmark for Phobos Sort Algorithm
Craig Black
craigblack2 at cox.net
Thu Dec 16 10:02:36 PST 2010
> And here is why. Quicksort is quite famous for being O(n^2) worst case
> (for sorted data). Your straightforward, simple (and less generic, I must
> say) implementation shines for random data, but performs terribly for
> ordered data. Phobos' sort isn't really plain quicksort so it is slower
> for random data (yet still of the same complexity as your code best case),
> but it is pretty fast for ordered data.
Quite right! Phobos sort does a really good job with ordered data. The
simple algorithm doesn't...
-Craig
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