[HN Gopher] Show HN: Fast(er) Sorting with Sorting Networks
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       Show HN: Fast(er) Sorting with Sorting Networks
        
       Author : zvrba
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-11-26 17:33 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | zvrba wrote:
       | So for I while I've been fascinated with sorting networks because
       | some of them are SIMD-friendly, and also how'd they perform
       | against "traditional" sorting algorithms. The code linked to is
       | an experiment in both evaluating performance of sorting networks
       | and in writing high-performance code in C# (pointers, AVX2
       | intrinsics). The results are promising: sorting networks sort
       | integer and float arrays 3-6X faster than the built-in
       | `Array.Sort` method for arrays of up to 1M elements.
        
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