The SortingAlgorithms package provides three sorting algorithms that can be used with Julia's standard sorting API:
- HeapSort – an unstable, general purpose, in-place, O(n log n) comparison sort that works by heapifying an array and repeatedly taking the maximal element from the heap.
- TimSort – a stable, general purpose, hybrid, O(n log n) comparison sort that adapts to different common patterns of partially ordered input data.
- RadixSort – a stable, special case, in-place, O(n) non-comparison sort that works by sorting data with fixed size, one digit at a time.
julia> using SortingAlgorithms
julia> words = map(chomp,[readlines(open("/usr/share/dict/words"))...])
235886-element Array{ASCIIString,1}:
"A"
"a"
"aa"
"aal"
"aalii"
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"zythem"
"Zythia"
"zythum"
"Zyzomys"
"Zyzzogeton"
julia> sort!(words, alg=TimSort)
235886-element Array{ASCIIString,1}:
"A"
"Aani"
"Aaron"
"Aaronic"
"Aaronical"
⋮
"zymotize"
"zymotoxic"
"zymurgy"
"zythem"
"zythum"
julia> sort!(words, alg=TimSort, by=length)
235886-element Array{ASCIIString,1}:
"A"
"B"
"C"
"D"
"E"
⋮
"formaldehydesulphoxylate"
"pathologicopsychological"
"scientificophilosophical"
"tetraiodophenolphthalein"
"thyroparathyroidectomize"
julia> sort!(words, alg=HeapSort)
235886-element Array{ASCIIString,1}:
"A"
"Aani"
"Aaron"
"Aaronic"
"Aaronical"
⋮
"zymotize"
"zymotoxic"
"zymurgy"
"zythem"
"zythum"
julia> sort!(words, alg=HeapSort, by=length)
235886-element Array{ASCIIString,1}:
"L"
"p"
"U"
"I"
"q"
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"pathologicopsychological"
"formaldehydesulphoxylate"
"scientificophilosophical"
"tetraiodophenolphthalein"
"thyroparathyroidectomize"
julia> sort!(words, alg=RadixSort)
ERROR: Radix sort only sorts bits types (got ASCIIString)
in error at error.jl:21
in sort! at /Users/stefan/.julia/SortingAlgorithms/src/SortingAlgorithms.jl:54
in sort! at sort.jl:328
in sort! at sort.jl:329
julia> floats = randn(1000)
1000-element Array{Float64,1}:
1.729
0.907196
0.461481
-0.204763
-0.16022
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0.700683
-0.236204
-2.15634
-0.316188
-0.171478
julia> sort!(floats, alg=RadixSort)
1000-element Array{Float64,1}:
-2.86255
-2.72041
-2.58234
-2.57259
-2.53046
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3.08307
3.12902
3.15075
3.20058
3.23942