Sort-bench

Different sorting algorithms and their benchmarks

This mini-project offers a naive implementation of a few popular sorting algorithms for the sake of practice. The provided benchmarking driver is to quantitatively evaluate their performance.

The code for sorting algorithms is found in \inc directory. The driver for the set of benchmarks is in \src directory. Algorithms time and memory complexity, along with discussion of some key features, are found in corresponding headers. See documentation.

Googletest unit tests are included in \gtest to validate the sorting algorithms. Compile & test with make test.

Current list of sorting algorithms include:

• Bubble Sort
• Heap Sort
• Insertion Sort
• Merge Sort
• Quick Sort
• Selection Sort

Other algorithms can be added to the bench driver easily by inserting the following line into benchRunner.cpp

algorithms.push_back(make_pair(& /*template of sorting METHOD*/ <Type>, "/*sorting method NAME*/"));

Compile & Run

make run

Sample output

-------------------------------------------
 RESULTS OF BENCHMARK ( 50000 items )
-------------------------------------------

    [      Heap Sort ] = 0.0140328 sec
    [ Insertion Sort ] = 1.23837 sec
    [     Merge Sort ] = 0.0202466 sec
    [     Quick Sort ] = 0.00782 sec
    [    Bubble Sort ] = 8.40487 sec
    [ Selection Sort ] = 7.81709 sec

----------------( average of  5 runs )-----