[Haskell-cafe] Data.List.sort, not so good?

[Adrian Neumann]

Ah that's interesting. Now my Mergesort is exactly as fast as  
List.sort. I thought GHC was smart enough to do that kind of inter- 
module optimisation.

Still, Quicksort is twice as fast, so at least one argument for a  
Data.List.Sort package on hackage remains.


Am 29.12.2008 um 16:43 schrieb Bayley, Alistair:

>> From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org
>> [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Neumann
>>
>> I don't consider myself to be a very advanced Haskell
>> programmer, but
>> I could come up with a Mergesort that beats List.sort, time- and
>> spacewise.
>>
>>> http://hpaste.org/13403
>>
>> On my machine List.sort takes ~10 sec, mergeSort 7, qs 4 (compiled
>> with -O2). List.sort eats too much ram to sort 20.000.000 ints, my
>> algorithms don't.
>> QuickCheck says my implementations are correct.
>
>
> Your single module might be benefiting from optimisation;  
> specifically,
> specialisation to Ints, which would allow the dictionary lookup to be
> removed. Can you get the same performance if you move your mergeSort &
> qs functions into a separate module, and only export mergeSort & qs?
>
> Alistair
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