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<code class="literal"><code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="../../boost/sort/spreadsort/integer_sort_idp41299456.html" title="Function template integer_sort">integer_sort</a></code></code>
is a fast templated in-place hybrid radix/comparison algorithm, which in
testing tends to be roughly 50% to 2X faster than <a href="http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/sort" target="_top">std::sort</a>
for large tests (&gt;=100kB). Worst-case performance is <span class="emphasis"><em>&#119926;(N * (log2(range)/s
+ s))</em></span>, so <code class="literal"><code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="../../boost/sort/spreadsort/integer_sort_idp41299456.html" title="Function template integer_sort">integer_sort</a></code></code>
is asymptotically faster than pure comparison-based algorithms. <span class="emphasis"><em>s</em></span>
is <span class="emphasis"><em>max_splits</em></span>, which defaults to 11, so its worst-case
with default settings for 32-bit integers is <span class="emphasis"><em>&#119926;(N * ((32/11)</em></span>
slow radix-based iterations + 11 fast comparison-based iterations).
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Some performance plots of runtime vs. n and log2(range) are provided below:
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<a href="../../../../doc/graph/windows_integer_sort.htm" target="_top">Windows Integer Sort</a>
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<a href="../../../../doc/graph/osx_integer_sort.htm" target="_top">OSX integer Sort</a>
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See <a href="../../../../example/rightshiftsample.cpp" target="_top">rightshiftsample.cpp</a>
for a working example of using rightshift, using a user-defined functor:
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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">struct</span> <span class="identifier">rightshift</span> <span class="special">{</span>
<span class="keyword">inline</span> <span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="keyword">operator</span><span class="special">()(</span><span class="identifier">DATA_TYPE</span> <span class="identifier">x</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="identifier">offset</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="special">{</span> <span class="keyword">return</span> <span class="identifier">x</span> <span class="special">&gt;&gt;</span> <span class="identifier">offset</span><span class="special">;</span> <span class="special">}</span>
<span class="special">};</span>
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Other examples:
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<a href="../../../../example/keyplusdatasample.cpp" target="_top">Sort structs using an
integer key.</a>
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<a href="../../../../example/reverseintsample.cpp" target="_top">Sort integers in reverse
order.</a>
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<a href="../../../../example/mostlysorted.cpp" target="_top">Simple sorting of integers;
this case is a performance test for integers that are already mostly sorted.</a>
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