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Added sortperm! #8792

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One change which I'm unsure of here is loosening the types allowed for lt(p::Perm, a, b) from Int to Integer. I did it with the idea that, if a user is providing a preallocated array, she could choose to use a different integer type (e.g., a large Int32 array might have better cache performance than Int64).

That said, restricting the sortperm array type to Vector{Int} would be fine as well. Thoughts?

Cc: @ViralBShah, @StefanKarpinski

* Allows preallocation (and therefore, reuse) of an index array
* Useful for #8316
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This makes me very happy. Thanks, Kevin!

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This is so awesome! I think Integer is ok, so long as it does not have a performance impact, because there is value in being able to use Int32 for performance gains where worthwhile.

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Very nice.

ViralBShah added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2014
@ViralBShah ViralBShah merged commit 1000471 into master Oct 24, 2014
@ViralBShah ViralBShah deleted the kms/sortperm! branch October 24, 2014 10:43
@@ -341,6 +342,14 @@ sortperm(v::AbstractVector; alg::Algorithm=DEFAULT_UNSTABLE,
lt::Function=isless, by::Function=identity, rev::Bool=false, order::Ordering=Forward) =
sort!([1:length(v)], alg, Perm(ord(lt,by,rev,order),v))

function sortperm!{I<:Integer}(x::Vector{I}, v::AbstractVector; alg::Algorithm=DEFAULT_UNSTABLE,
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I guess x can be an AbstractVector. Any reason it should not?

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Yeah, I think that should be fine. I actually started with that, and then changed it for some reason that I forget.

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What about workspace allocation in the various sort algorithms? Presumably MergeSort has a workspace. Can we make that reusable by passing a work array too?

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