Deprecated: This is pre-rust 1.0 code. A majority of it will not compile or otherwise work in modern Rust. It is kept here for legacy but is not recommended to learn from or use.
A comparison of different sort algorithms in Rust. This includes mergesort, quicksort, heapsort, insertion sort, selection sort, bubble sort and even bogo sort. The library comes with benchmarks for vectors of different sizes and for vectors that are already sorted or vectors where all elements are equivalent. This library also comes with QuickCheck tests that check whether the result of a sorting algorithm is sorted. Each algorithm is also checked that it is stable/unstable depending on the algorithm used.
There is some documentation of the API: http://burntsushi.net/rustdoc/sorts
Many of the implementations were done with inspiration from the relevant Wikipedia articles.
Tests can be run with make test. Benchmarks can be run with make bench.
Since they can take a long time to run, here are all benchmarks on my machine.
My specs: Intel i3930K (12 threads) with 32GB of memory. Compiled with -O.
Note that sorting algorithms with average case O(n^2) or worse complexity are
not benchmarked on the medium and large sizes.
The std sort is the one from Rust's standard library.
micro_bubble 119 ns/iter (+/- 22)
micro_heapsort_down 169 ns/iter (+/- 16)
micro_heapsort_up 173 ns/iter (+/- 13)
micro_insertion 124 ns/iter (+/- 33)
micro_mergesort 282 ns/iter (+/- 7)
micro_mergesort_insertion 184 ns/iter (+/- 40)
micro_quicksort_dumb 235 ns/iter (+/- 63)
micro_quicksort_insertion 129 ns/iter (+/- 21)
micro_quicksort_smart 234 ns/iter (+/- 31)
micro_selection 133 ns/iter (+/- 9)
micro_std 121 ns/iter (+/- 36)
small_bubble 11306 ns/iter (+/- 1622)
small_heapsort_down 2782 ns/iter (+/- 101)
small_heapsort_up 2790 ns/iter (+/- 99)
small_insertion 6396 ns/iter (+/- 964)
small_mergesort 3263 ns/iter (+/- 99)
small_mergesort_insertion 2521 ns/iter (+/- 192)
small_quicksort_dumb 2679 ns/iter (+/- 264)
small_quicksort_insertion 2454 ns/iter (+/- 263)
small_quicksort_smart 2627 ns/iter (+/- 213)
small_selection 6436 ns/iter (+/- 354)
small_std 2370 ns/iter (+/- 198)
medium_heapsort_down 664567 ns/iter (+/- 3372)
medium_heapsort_up 708254 ns/iter (+/- 2642)
medium_mergesort 982694 ns/iter (+/- 3843)
medium_mergesort_insertion 886573 ns/iter (+/- 4352)
medium_quicksort_dumb 686721 ns/iter (+/- 24446)
medium_quicksort_insertion 678892 ns/iter (+/- 15685)
medium_quicksort_smart 690518 ns/iter (+/- 18175)
medium_std 494699 ns/iter (+/- 1971)
large_heapsort_down 10174136 ns/iter (+/- 187066)
large_heapsort_up 10659817 ns/iter (+/- 134254)
large_mergesort 12287202 ns/iter (+/- 53687)
large_mergesort_insertion 11349007 ns/iter (+/- 37731)
large_quicksort_dumb 8286579 ns/iter (+/- 163110)
large_quicksort_insertion 8223799 ns/iter (+/- 188353)
large_quicksort_smart 8307287 ns/iter (+/- 154722)
large_std 6113112 ns/iter (+/- 23370)
same_bogo 3883 ns/iter (+/- 6)
same_bubble 4394 ns/iter (+/- 8)
same_heapsort_down 10125 ns/iter (+/- 14)
same_heapsort_up 11256 ns/iter (+/- 499)
same_insertion 4923 ns/iter (+/- 8)
same_mergesort 37884 ns/iter (+/- 575)
same_mergesort_insertion 25502 ns/iter (+/- 45)
same_quicksort_dumb 693800 ns/iter (+/- 1310)
same_quicksort_insertion 695169 ns/iter (+/- 1461)
same_quicksort_smart 695203 ns/iter (+/- 932)
same_selection 536685 ns/iter (+/- 1853)
same_std 15378 ns/iter (+/- 45)
sorted_bogo 3982 ns/iter (+/- 13)
sorted_bubble 4396 ns/iter (+/- 77)
sorted_heapsort_down 44740 ns/iter (+/- 1003)
sorted_heapsort_up 50721 ns/iter (+/- 150)
sorted_insertion 4881 ns/iter (+/- 15)
sorted_mergesort 37888 ns/iter (+/- 1429)
sorted_mergesort_insertion 25596 ns/iter (+/- 64)
sorted_quicksort_dumb 561639 ns/iter (+/- 1818)
sorted_quicksort_insertion 25458 ns/iter (+/- 92)
sorted_quicksort_smart 25330 ns/iter (+/- 122)
sorted_selection 536804 ns/iter (+/- 2146)
sorted_std 15362 ns/iter (+/- 66)