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Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API

by Christof Kaser tiki.li 3 min read

Performance results naturally depend on the underlying hardware. The following benchmarks show the execution times for sorting 50 million doubles using different sorting implementations. The measurements were taken on an Apple M1 system using Clang and on an AMD Ryzen 3 Linux system using GCC , both compiled with the…

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