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Quick sort in Solidity for Ethereum network
pragma solidity ^0.4.18;
contract QuickSort {
function sort(uint[] data) public constant returns(uint[]) {
quickSort(data, int(0), int(data.length - 1));
return data;
}
function quickSort(uint[] memory arr, int left, int right) internal{
int i = left;
int j = right;
if(i==j) return;
uint pivot = arr[uint(left + (right - left) / 2)];
while (i <= j) {
while (arr[uint(i)] < pivot) i++;
while (pivot < arr[uint(j)]) j--;
if (i <= j) {
(arr[uint(i)], arr[uint(j)]) = (arr[uint(j)], arr[uint(i)]);
i++;
j--;
}
}
if (left < j)
quickSort(arr, left, j);
if (i < right)
quickSort(arr, i, right);
}
}
@EightRice
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what do left and right mean in that context?

@0xSumitBanik
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what do left and right mean in that context?

The left and right pointers pointing to the array elements.

@gsscoder
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gsscoder commented Feb 3, 2023

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0nova commented Mar 6, 2024

This can help possibly

contract QuickSort {
    function quickSort(uint[] memory arr) public pure returns (uint[] memory) {
        if (arr.length <= 1) {
            return arr;
        }

        quickSortImpl(arr, 0, int(arr.length - 1));
        return arr;
    }

    function quickSortImpl(uint[] memory arr, int left, int right) private pure {
        if (left < right) {
            int pivotIndex = partition(arr, left, right);

            if (pivotIndex > 1) {
                quickSortImpl(arr, left, pivotIndex - 1);
            }

            if (pivotIndex + 1 < right) {
                quickSortImpl(arr, pivotIndex + 1, right);
            }
        }
    }

    function partition(uint[] memory arr, int left, int right) private pure returns (int) {
        uint pivot = arr[uint(right)];
        int i = left - 1;

        for (int j = left; j < right; j++) {
            if (arr[uint(j)] <= pivot) {
                i++;
                (arr[uint(i)], arr[uint(j)]) = (arr[uint(j)], arr[uint(i)]);
            }
        }

        (arr[uint(i + 1)], arr[uint(right)]) = (arr[uint(right)], arr[uint(i + 1)]);
        return i + 1;
    }

}

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0nova commented Mar 6, 2024

This takes 350K gas with 100 elements

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