parallel-sort

Node.js library for multi-threaded sorting of large number arrays.

Most useful when doing frequent sorts of arrays larger than 10 million elements.

NB: This library only works in Node.js, and not in the browser, as it depends on the Node.js worker threads API.

Usage

Install with npm install parallel-sort. Then use it in your project:

import parallelSort from 'parallel-sort';

const myBigArrayThatNeedsSorting = Float64Array.from({length: 10_000_000}, () => Math.random());
const mySortedArray = await parallelSort(myBigArrayThatNeedsSorting);

Contributing

Pull requests are welcomed on GitHub! To get started:

1. Install Git and Node.js
2. Clone the repository
3. Install dependencies with npm install
4. Run npm run test to run tests
5. Build with npm run build

Releases

Versions follow the semantic versioning spec.

To release:

1. Use npm version <major | minor | patch> to bump the version
2. Run git push --follow-tags to push with tags
3. Wait for GitHub Actions to publish to the NPM registry.