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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:53:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r332796 - head/tools/tools/sortbench
Message-ID:  <201804192353.w3JNr3Ug068072@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180419234735.GA1188@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>

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> The goal is to replace our merge sort with its weird limitations (you
> can't sort things smaller than int on amd64 and it doesn't work with
> pointer integrity schemes) with wikisort.  This and improvements to the
> tests are the first steps in the process.
> 
> -- Brooks

Couldnt this be a port, as most other benchmarks?
Especially since it requires python to run.

> 
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 04:28:47PM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> > The commit log describes what the commit does, but not why it was
> > made.  What's the eventual goal / direction that this change leads to?
> > 
> > (The Phabricator revision doesn't elaborate further either.)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Conrad
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > Author: brooks
> > > Date: Thu Apr 19 21:53:57 2018
> > > New Revision: 332796
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/332796
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   Add sortbench.
> > >
> > >   This is a set of benchmarks of qsort, mergesort, heapsort, and
> > >   optionally wikisort and a script to run them.
> > 
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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