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vector: Timsort all of the things · de18f276
Drop the GLibc implementation of Merge Sort and replace it with Timsort. The algorithm has been tuned to work on arrays of pointers (void **), so there's no longer a need to abstract the byte-width of each element in the array. All the comparison callbacks now take pointers-to-elements, not pointers-to-pointers, so there's now one less level of dereferencing. E.g. int index_cmp(const void *a, const void *b) { - const git_index_entry *entry_a = *(const git_index_entry **)(a); + const git_index_entry *entry_a = (const git_index_entry *)(a); The result is up to a 40% speed-up when sorting vectors. Memory usage remains lineal. A new `bsearch` implementation has been added, whose callback also supplies pointer-to-elements, to uniform the Vector API again.
Vicent Marti committed