sorting-network-go

A Go utility for checking and rendering sorting networks

Adapted from this Python version

Usage

You specify a comparison network as a comma-separated list of comparators, where each comparator is formated like X:Y where X and Y are zero-based input indices. For example: 0:1,2:3,0:2,1:3,1:2

Load a 16-input comparison network from a file and check if it is a sorting network

$ go run cmd/sortingnetwork/sortingnetwork.go -input examples/16-input.cn -check

Output:

It is a sorting network!  

Check a 4-input comparison network from stdin

$ echo 0:1,2:3,0:2,1:3,1:2 | go run cmd/sortingnetwork/sortingnetwork.go -check

Output:

It is a sorting network!  

Check a 4-input comparison network from stdin (Not a sorting network)

$ echo 0:1,2:3,0:2,1:3 | go run cmd/sortingnetwork/sortingnetwork.go -check

Output:

It is not a sorting network.

Load a 4-input comparison network from a file and render it as an SVG

$ go run cmd/sortingnetwork/sortingnetwork.go -input examples/4-input.cn -svg > examples/4-input.svg

Load a 4-input comparison network from a file and render it as a PNG

You can use rsvg-convert to convert the output from SVG to some other format, like PNG. rsvg-convert can be installed by using sudo apt-get install librsvg2-bin on Ubuntu.

$ go run cmd/sortingnetwork/sortingnetwork.go -input examples/4-input.cn -svg | rsvg-convert > examples/4-input.png

Example sorting networks

4-Input

0:1,2:3
0:2,1:3
1:2

5-Input

0:1,3:4
2:4
2:3,1:4
0:3
0:2,1:3
1:2

16-Input

0:1,2:3,4:5,6:7,8:9,10:11,12:13,14:15
0:2,1:3,4:6,5:7,8:10,9:11,12:14,13:15
0:4,1:5,2:6,3:7,8:12,9:13,10:14,11:15
0:8,1:9,2:10,3:11,4:12,5:13,6:14,7:15
5:10,6:9,3:12,13:14,7:11,1:2,4:8
1:4,7:13,2:8,11:14
2:4,5:6,9:10,11:13,3:8,7:12
6:8,10:12,3:5,7:9
3:4,5:6,7:8,9:10,11:12
6:7,8:9