From: Zack Weinberg via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Use introsort for qsort
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:03:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ca95045-a0a6-4d16-8fb9-d06cb9ae961b@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d81d7c8c-0c41-fec9-46d1-478fad8342bf@redhat.com>
On Mon, Sep 6, 2021, at 10:13 AM, Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha wrote:
>
> In general I think glibc should provide a qsort that is:
>
> - Safe.
>
> - Does not have quadratic performance behaviour.
>
> If we want better performance we need to:
>
> - Add new APIs mirroring what BSD is doing.
>
> - New APIs explicitly call out the *type* of sort algorithm.
>
> - Encourage developers and application authors to contribute those
> new implementations and use them in their applications.
Do you have a link or other reference for these new APIs being developed by the BSDs?
(asking out of curiosity; I haven't been following this discussion closely enough to have an opinion)
zw
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-03 17:11 [PATCH v3 0/7] Use introsort for qsort Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] benchtests: Add bench-qsort Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-04 9:09 ` Alexander Monakov via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 18:30 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-13 3:19 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 12:52 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 16:39 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:19 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] support: Fix getopt_long with CMDLINE_OPTIONS Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] stdlib: Optimization qsort{_r} swap implementation (BZ #19305) Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-13 3:29 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-13 3:39 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 13:29 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:17 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:34 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:45 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:56 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 13:12 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 16:45 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:21 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] stdlib: Move insertion sort out qsort Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 20:35 ` Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 20:48 ` Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] stdlib: qsort: Move some macros to inline function Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] stdlib: Implement introsort with qsort Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-04 9:17 ` Alexander Monakov via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 18:43 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 20:23 ` Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha
2021-10-13 3:53 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] stdlib: Remove use of mergesort on qsort (BZ #21719) Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 19:18 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] Use introsort for qsort Paul Eggert
2021-09-06 14:13 ` Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 17:03 ` Zack Weinberg via Libc-alpha [this message]
2021-09-06 18:19 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-07 0:14 ` Paul Eggert
2021-09-07 14:32 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-07 17:39 ` Paul Eggert
2021-09-07 18:07 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-07 19:28 ` Paul Eggert
2021-09-08 11:56 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-09 0:39 ` Paul Eggert
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