Voultapher/sort-research-rs
Test and benchmark suite for sort implementations.
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- Safety vs. Performance. A case study of C, C++ and Rust sort implementations (172 points, 130 comments, by bubblehack3r, 2023-10-05)
- The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms (167 points, 58 comments, by Voultapher, 2025-09-11)
- A performance analysis of Intel x86-SIMD-sort (AVX-512) (129 points, 47 comments, by Twirrim, 2023-06-10)
- Safety vs. Performance. A case study of C, C++ and Rust sort implementations (41 points, 3 comments, by signa11, 2023-10-05)
- 10~17x faster than what? A performance analysis of Intel' x86-SIMD-sort(AVX-512) (20 points, 10 comments, by Voultapher, 2023-06-10)
- The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms (6 points, 0 comments, by charles_irl, 2025-09-12)
- Fast, small, robust: pick three. Introducing a novel branchless partition impl (3 points, 2 comments, by Voultapher, 2024-01-30)
- Driftsort: An efficient, generic and robust stable sort implementation (3 points, 0 comments, by killcoder, 2024-04-17)
- The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms (3 points, 0 comments, by thunderbong, 2025-09-10)
- A performance analysis of five stable sort algorithms (two are novel/new) (2 points, 0 comments, by todsacerdoti, 2023-02-11)
- Show HN: A categorization of memory safety for various sort implementations (2 points, 0 comments, by Voultapher, 2023-10-04)
- Fast, small, robust: Introducing a novel branchless partition implementation (2 points, 0 comments, by dralley, 2023-12-04)
- A novel branchless partition implementation (2 points, 0 comments, by killcoder, 2023-12-05)
- Ipnsort: An efficient, generic and robust unstable sort implementation (2 points, 0 comments, by meltyness, 2025-04-02)
- Driftsort: An efficient, generic and robust stable sort implementation (2 points, 0 comments, by g0xA52A2A, 2025-09-09)
- The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms (2 points, 0 comments, by lukastyrychtr, 2025-09-12)
- The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms (2 points, 0 comments, by r4um, 2025-09-13)
- Driftsort: An efficient, generic and robust stable sort implementation (2 points, 0 comments, by drw, 2026-09-16)
- A branchless quicksort partition algorithm (2023) (1 points, 0 comments, by fanf2, 2024-09-17)
- Ipnsort: An efficient, generic and robust unstable sort implementation (1 points, 0 comments, by fanf2, 2025-09-19)