Add API to sort array of custom objects

benchmarks/bench-all.cpp

@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
 #include "bench-qselect.hpp"
 #include "bench-qsort.hpp"
 #include "bench-keyvalue.hpp"
+#include "bench-objsort.hpp"

benchmarks/bench-objsort.hpp

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+#include <cmath>
+
+static constexpr char x[] = "x";
+static constexpr char euclidean[] = "euclidean";
+static constexpr char taxicab[] = "taxicab";
+static constexpr char chebyshev[] = "chebyshev";
+
+template <const char* val>
+struct Point3D {
+    double x;
+    double y;
+    double z;
+    static constexpr std::string_view name {val};
+    Point3D()
+    {
+        x = (double)rand() / RAND_MAX;
+        y = (double)rand() / RAND_MAX;
+        z = (double)rand() / RAND_MAX;
+    }
+    double distance()
+    {
+        if constexpr (name == "x") {
+            return x;
+        }
+        else if constexpr (name == "euclidean") {
+            return std::sqrt(x * x + y * y + z * z);
+        }
+        else if constexpr (name == "taxicab") {
+            return abs(x) + abs(y) + abs(z);
+        }
+        else if constexpr (name == "chebyshev") {
+            return std::max(std::max(x, y), z);
+        }
+    }
+};
+
+template <typename T>
+std::vector<T> init_data(const int size)
+{
+    srand(42);
+    std::vector<T> arr;
+    for (auto ii = 0; ii < size; ++ii) {
+        T temp;
+        arr.push_back(temp);
+    }
+    return arr;
+}
+
+template <typename T>
+struct less_than_key {
+    inline bool operator()(T &p1, T &p2)
+    {
+        return (p1.distance() < p2.distance());
+    }
+};
+
+template <typename T>
+static void scalarobjsort(benchmark::State &state)
+{
+    // set up array
+    std::vector<T> arr = init_data<T>(state.range(0));
+    std::vector<T> arr_bkp = arr;
+    // benchmark
+    for (auto _ : state) {
+        std::sort(arr.begin(), arr.end(), less_than_key<T>());
+        state.PauseTiming();
+        arr = arr_bkp;
+        state.ResumeTiming();
+    }
+}
+
+template <typename T>
+static void simdobjsort(benchmark::State &state)
+{
+    // set up array
+    std::vector<T> arr = init_data<T>(state.range(0));
+    std::vector<T> arr_bkp = arr;
+    // benchmark
+    for (auto _ : state) {
+        x86simdsort::object_qsort(arr.data(), arr.size(), [](T p) -> double {
+            return p.distance();
+        });
+        state.PauseTiming();
+        if (!std::is_sorted(arr.begin(), arr.end(), less_than_key<T>())) {
+            std::cout << "sorting failed \n";
+        }
+        arr = arr_bkp;
+        state.ResumeTiming();
+    }
+}
+
+#define BENCHMARK_OBJSORT(func, T) \
+    BENCHMARK_TEMPLATE(func, T) \
+            ->Arg(10e1) \
+            ->Arg(10e2) \
+            ->Arg(10e3) \
+            ->Arg(10e4) \
+            ->Arg(10e5) \
+            ->Arg(10e6);
+
+BENCHMARK_OBJSORT(simdobjsort, Point3D<x>)
+BENCHMARK_OBJSORT(scalarobjsort, Point3D<x>)
+BENCHMARK_OBJSORT(simdobjsort, Point3D<taxicab>)
+BENCHMARK_OBJSORT(scalarobjsort, Point3D<taxicab>)
+BENCHMARK_OBJSORT(simdobjsort, Point3D<euclidean>)
+BENCHMARK_OBJSORT(scalarobjsort, Point3D<euclidean>)
+BENCHMARK_OBJSORT(simdobjsort, Point3D<chebyshev>)
+BENCHMARK_OBJSORT(scalarobjsort, Point3D<chebyshev>)

lib/x86simdsort.h

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include <vector>
 #include <cstddef>
+#include <functional>
+#include <numeric>
 
 #define XSS_EXPORT_SYMBOL __attribute__((visibility("default")))
 #define XSS_HIDE_SYMBOL __attribute__((visibility("hidden")))
@@ -34,10 +36,49 @@ template <typename T>
 XSS_EXPORT_SYMBOL std::vector<size_t>
 argselect(T *arr, size_t k, size_t arrsize, bool hasnan = false);
 
-// argselect
+// keyvalue sort
 template <typename T1, typename T2>
 XSS_EXPORT_SYMBOL void
 keyvalue_qsort(T1 *key, T2* val, size_t arrsize, bool hasnan = false);
 
+// sort an object
+template <typename T, typename Func>
+XSS_EXPORT_SYMBOL void object_qsort(T *arr, size_t arrsize, Func key_func)
+{
+    /* (1) Create a vector a keys */
+    using return_type_of =
+            typename decltype(std::function {key_func})::result_type;
+    std::vector<return_type_of> keys;
+    keys.reserve(arrsize);
+    for (size_t ii = 0; ii < arrsize; ++ii) {
+        keys[ii] = key_func(arr[ii]);
+    }
+
+    /* (2) Call arg based on keys using the keyvalue sort */
+    std::vector<size_t> arg(arrsize);
+    std::iota(arg.begin(), arg.end(), 0);
+    keyvalue_qsort(keys.data(), arg.data(), arrsize);
+
+    /* (3) Permute obj array in-place */
+    std::vector<bool> done(arrsize);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < arrsize; ++i)
+    {
+        if (done[i])
+        {
+            continue;
+        }
+        done[i] = true;
+        size_t prev_j = i;
+        size_t j = arg[i];
+        while (i != j)
+        {
+            std::swap(arr[prev_j], arr[j]);
+            done[j] = true;
+            prev_j = j;
+            j = arg[j];
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 } // namespace x86simdsort
 #endif

run-bench.py

@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@
     elif "keyvalue" in args.benchcompare:
         baseline = "scalarkvsort.*" + filterb
         contender = "simdkvsort.*" + filterb
+    elif "objsort" in args.benchcompare:
+        baseline = "scalarobjsort.*" + filterb
+        contender = "simdobjsort.*" + filterb
     else:
         parser.print_help(sys.stderr)
         parser.error("ERROR: Unknown argument '%s'" % args.benchcompare)