added thiersort2 - better than std, somewhat similar to schwab in perf but is a bucket sort - very interestingly not huge boost in bucketing speed

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Richard Thier 2025-09-11 20:42:04 +02:00
parent 85aaf4b1a1
commit a3643eba9b
2 changed files with 155 additions and 12 deletions

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#ifndef THIER_SORT2_H
#define THIER_SORT2_H
#include <stdint.h>
#include "qsort/schwab_sort.h"
/* A non-implace tricky float-hackz based bucket sort variant. Uses schwabsort! */
/* Float and unsigned32 reinterpreter */
union th2_fu {
float f;
uint32_t u;
};
typedef union th2_fu th2_fu;
/** Tells from the key which bucket it is in. */
static inline uint32_t witch_bucket(uint32_t key) {
/* This is hackz to misuse int->float converter HEAVILY and IEE for bucketing */
/* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-precision_floating-point_format */
/* Old Hungarian ASM trick I know from Tomcat/Abaddon mailing list and prog.hu */
/* "A következő nagyon fontos gondolat, hogy két lebegőpontos számot, */
/* amennyiben pozitív, "simán" is összehasonlíthatunk" */
/* See: https://prog.hu/cikkek/100239/fpu-gems */
/* This approach uses 12 bits from a 32 bit float to map onto a byte bucket index */
th2_fu as;
as.f = (float) key;
uint32_t witch_base = (key <= 2) ? 0 : (as.u >> 23) - 128; // 0, [127..159] -> [0..31]
return witch_base * 8 + ((as.u >> (23 - 3)) & 7);
}
/**
* Sort the array using the temporary array of the same size with fast bucket sort thiersort.
*
* @param arr The array to sort, will contain result afterwards
* @param temparr The temporary array with same size
* @param n Number of elements in arr and temparr
* @param rstate Create with sch_rand_state rstate = schwab_rand_state(junk_uint32_t);
*/
static inline void thiersort2(uint32_t *arr, uint32_t *temparr, int n, sch_rand_state *rstate) {
int bucket[256]; /* Inclusive */
int bucket_end[256]; /* Not inclusive */
/* Check if need to sort at all - needed for invariants later */
if(n < 2) {
return;
}
/* Count */
#pragma GCC unroll 4
for(int i = 0; i < 256; ++i) {
bucket[i] = 0;
}
#pragma GCC unroll 4
for(int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
++bucket[witch_bucket(arr[i])];
}
/* Prefix sum (like in Magyarsort) */
uint32_t prev = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
bucket[i] += prev;
prev = bucket[i];
}
/* Save end-offsets */
#pragma GCC unroll 4
for(int i = 0; i < 256; ++i) {
bucket_end[i] = bucket[i];
}
/* arr -> temparr */
/* Move to the buckets - backwards going save a few cache miss */
/* Rem.: This also changes bucket[i] so they will point to bucket beginnings */
#pragma GCC unroll 64
for(int i = n; i > 0; --i) {
uint32_t num = arr[i - 1];
uint32_t witch = witch_bucket(num);
int offset = (--bucket[witch]);
temparr[offset] = num;
}
/* temparr -> arr each bucket and sort them in-place */
#pragma GCC unroll 64
for(int b = 0; b < 256; ++b) {
int begin = bucket[b];
int end = bucket_end[b];
/* Ensure exists */
if(begin >= end) {
continue;
}
/* We make a three-way FAST quicksort partitioning with first elem pivot: */
/* Basically a Lomuto-like unidirectional partitioning for pivot and two-way for small/big */
int smalli = begin;
int biggi = end - 1; /* always exists */
int i = begin;
uint32_t pivot = temparr[i];
#pragma GCC unroll 4
for(int j = begin + 1; j < end; ++j) {
if(temparr[j] == b) {
/* swap to front partition */
++i;
uint32_t tmp = temparr[i];
temparr[i] = temparr[j];
temparr[j] = tmp;
} else if(temparr[j] < b) {
/* copy to left */
arr[smalli++] = temparr[j];
} else {
/* copy to right */
arr[biggi--] = temparr[j];
}
}
/* Copy the mid elements back */
#pragma GCC unroll 4
for(int j = begin; j < i + 1; ++j) {
arr[smalli++] = temparr[j];
}
/* Call schwabsort */
schwab_sort(arr, begin, end - 1, rstate);
}
}
#endif /* THIER_SORT2_H */

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#include "ska_sort.hpp"
#include "gptsort.h"
#include "thiersort.h"
#include "thiersort2.h"
#include "qsort/qsort.h"
#include "qsort/zssort.h"
#include "qsort/schwab_sort.h"
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schwab_sort(a, 0, n - 1, &state);
}
/** thier2 */
static inline void do_thier2(uint32_t *a, int n) noexcept {
assert(n * uint32_t(sizeof(a[0])) <= INT_MAX);
uint32_t junk;
sch_rand_state state = schwab_rand_state(junk);
std::vector<uint32_t> tmp(n);
thiersort2(a, &(tmp[0]), n, &state);
}
// mormord — Today at 2:27 AM
// 1 2 2 2 3
//
@ -849,6 +859,7 @@ void measure_single(int n) {
int main(void) {
//int n = 100000000;
//int n = 10000000;
//int n = 5000000;
int n = 1000000;
//int n = 100000;
//int n = 20000;
@ -857,7 +868,7 @@ int main(void) {
//int n = 170;
//int n = 100;
//int n = 180;
//int n = 10;
//int n = 20;
printf("Sorting %d elements:\n\n", n);
@ -878,7 +889,6 @@ int main(void) {
/*
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "ska", [&] { ska_sort(std::begin(w), std::end(w)); });
*/
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "ska_copy", [&] {
std::vector<uint32_t> buf(w.size());
@ -886,11 +896,10 @@ int main(void) {
w.swap(buf);
}
});
/*
*/
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "magyar", [&] { MagyarSort::sort<uint32_t>(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
*/
/*
w = v;
@ -937,22 +946,26 @@ int main(void) {
measure(inputtype, "qsr3", [&] { do_qsr3(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
*/
/*
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "zsrc", [&] { do_zsrc(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
*/
/*
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "meanqs", [&] { do_meanqs(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "zsr3", [&] { do_zsr3(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "zsr3_sp", [&] { do_zsr3_sp(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "zsr3_sp2", [&] { do_zsr3_sp2(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
/*
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "zsrc", [&] { do_zsrc(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
*/
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "meanqs", [&] { do_meanqs(&w[0], w.size()); });
measure(inputtype, "zsr3_sp2", [&] { do_zsr3_sp2(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
w = v;
@ -963,6 +976,10 @@ int main(void) {
measure(inputtype, "schwab", [&] { do_schwab(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "thier2", [&] { do_thier2(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
/*
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "magbuck", [&] { magyar_bucket_sort(&w[0], w.size()); });