template< class RandomIt >
void sort( RandomIt first, RandomIt last );
void sort( ExecutionPolicy&& policy,
template< class RandomIt, class Compare >
void sort( RandomIt first, RandomIt last, Compare comp );
void sort( ExecutionPolicy&& policy,
Sorts the elements in the range [
first,
last)
in non-descending order. The order of equal elements is not guaranteed to be preserved.
Elements are
sortedwith respect to
operator<(until C++20)std::less{}(since C++20).
3) Elements are sorted with respect to comp.
2,4) Same as (1,3), but executed according to policy.
These overloads participate in overload resolution only if all following conditions are satisfied:
If any of the following conditions is satisfied, the behavior is undefined:
[edit] Parameters first, last - the pair of iterators defining the range of elements to sort policy - the execution policy to use comp - comparison function object (i.e. an object that satisfies the requirements of Compare) which returns âtrue if the first argument is less than (i.e. is ordered before) the second.The signature of the comparison function should be equivalent to the following:
bool cmp(const Type1& a, const Type2& b);
While the signature does not need to have const&, the function must not modify the objects passed to it and must be able to accept all values of type (possibly const) Type1
and Type2
regardless of value category (thus, Type1&
is not allowed, nor is Type1
unless for Type1
a move is equivalent to a copy(since C++11)).
The types Type1 and Type2 must be such that an object of type RandomIt can be dereferenced and then implicitly converted to both of them. â
RandomIt
must meet the requirements of LegacyRandomAccessIterator. -Compare
must meet the requirements of Compare. [edit] Complexity
Given \(\scriptsize N\)N as last - first:
1,2) \(\scriptsize O(N \cdot \log(N))\)O(N·log(N))comparisons using
operator<(until C++20)std::less{}(since C++20).
3,4) \(\scriptsize O(N \cdot \log(N))\)O(N·log(N)) applications of the comparator comp.
[edit] ExceptionsThe overloads with a template parameter named ExecutionPolicy
report errors as follows:
ExecutionPolicy
is one of the standard policies, std::terminate is called. For any other ExecutionPolicy
, the behavior is implementation-defined.See also the implementations in libstdc++ and libc++.
[edit] NotesBefore LWG713, the complexity requirement allowed sort()
to be implemented using only Quicksort, which may need \(\scriptsize O(N^2)\)O(N2
) comparisons in the worst case.
Introsort can handle all cases with \(\scriptsize O(N \cdot \log(N))\)O(N·log(N)) comparisons (without incurring additional overhead in the average case), and thus is usually used for implementing sort()
.
libc++ has not implemented the corrected time complexity requirement until LLVM 14.
[edit] Example#include <algorithm> #include <array> #include <functional> #include <iostream> #include <string_view> int main() { std::array<int, 10> s{5, 7, 4, 2, 8, 6, 1, 9, 0, 3}; auto print = [&s](std::string_view const rem) { for (auto a : s) std::cout << a << ' '; std::cout << ": " << rem << '\n'; }; std::sort(s.begin(), s.end()); print("sorted with the default operator<"); std::sort(s.begin(), s.end(), std::greater<int>()); print("sorted with the standard library compare function object"); struct { bool operator()(int a, int b) const { return a < b; } } customLess; std::sort(s.begin(), s.end(), customLess); print("sorted with a custom function object"); std::sort(s.begin(), s.end(), [](int a, int b) { return a > b; }); print("sorted with a lambda expression"); }
Output:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : sorted with the default operator< 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 : sorted with the standard library compare function object 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : sorted with a custom function object 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 : sorted with a lambda expression[edit] Defect reports
The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards.
DR Applied to Behavior as published Correct behavior LWG 713 C++98 the \(\scriptsize O(N \cdot \log(N))\)O(N·log(N)) time complexity was only required on the average it is required for the worst case [edit] See also sorts the first N elements of a rangeRetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
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