Isn’t the default method now “radix” which is the data.table sort, and isn’t that already parallel using openmp where available?
Avi On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:26 PM Morgan Morgan <morgan.email...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am not sure if this is the right mailing list, so apologies in advance if > it is not. > > I found the following link/presentation: > https://www.r-project.org/dsc/2016/slides/ParallelSort.pdf > > The implementation of fsort is interesting but incomplete (not sure why?) > and can be improved or made faster (at least 25% I believe). I might be > wrong but there are maybe a couple of bugs as well. > > My questions are: > > 1/ Is the R Core team interested in a faster sorting algo? (Multithread or > even single threaded) > > 2/ I see an issue with the license, which is MPL-2.0, and hence not > compatible with base R, Python and Julia. Is there an interest to change > the license of fsort so all 3 languages (and all the people using these > languages) can benefit from it? (Like suggested on the first page) > > Please let me know if there is an interest to address the above points, I > would be happy to look into it (free of charge of course!). > > Thank you > Best regards > Morgan > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
