import dsort2sh from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/stdlib-js/blas-ext-base-dsort2sh@esm/index.mjs';

Simultaneously sorts two double-precision floating-point strided arrays based on the sort order of the first array x using Shellsort.

import Float64Array from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/stdlib-js/array-float64@esm/index.mjs'; var x = new Float64Array( [ 1.0, -2.0, 3.0, -4.0 ] ); var y = new Float64Array( [ 0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 ] ); dsort2sh( x.length, 1.0, x, 1, y, 1 ); console.log( x ); // => <Float64Array>[ -4.0, -2.0, 1.0, 3.0 ] console.log( y ); // => <Float64Array>[ 3.0, 1.0, 0.0, 2.0 ]

The function has the following parameters:

• N: number of indexed elements.
• order: sort order. If order < 0.0, the input strided array x is sorted in decreasing order. If order > 0.0, the input strided array x is sorted in increasing order. If order == 0.0, the input strided arrays are left unchanged.
• x: first input Float64Array.
• strideX: x index increment.
• y: second input Float64Array.
• strideY: y index increment.

The N and stride parameters determine which elements in x and y are accessed at runtime. For example, to sort every other element

import Float64Array from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/stdlib-js/array-float64@esm/index.mjs'; var x = new Float64Array( [ 1.0, -2.0, 3.0, -4.0 ] ); var y = new Float64Array( [ 0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 ] ); dsort2sh( 2, -1.0, x, 2, y, 2 ); console.log( x ); // => <Float64Array>[ 3.0, -2.0, 1.0, -4.0 ] console.log( y ); // => <Float64Array>[ 2.0, 1.0, 0.0, 3.0 ]

Note that indexing is relative to the first index. To introduce an offset, use typed array views.

import Float64Array from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/stdlib-js/array-float64@esm/index.mjs'; // Initial arrays... var x0 = new Float64Array( [ 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 ] ); var y0 = new Float64Array( [ 0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 ] ); // Create offset views... var x1 = new Float64Array( x0.buffer, x0.BYTES_PER_ELEMENT*1 ); // start at 2nd element var y1 = new Float64Array( y0.buffer, y0.BYTES_PER_ELEMENT*1 ); // start at 2nd element // Sort every other element... dsort2sh( 2, -1.0, x1, 2, y1, 2 ); console.log( x0 ); // => <Float64Array>[ 1.0, 4.0, 3.0, 2.0 ] console.log( y0 ); // => <Float64Array>[ 0.0, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0 ]

Simultaneously sorts two double-precision floating-point strided arrays based on the sort order of the first array x using Shellsort and alternative indexing semantics.

import Float64Array from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/stdlib-js/array-float64@esm/index.mjs'; var x = new Float64Array( [ 1.0, -2.0, 3.0, -4.0 ] ); var y = new Float64Array( [ 0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 ] ); dsort2sh.ndarray( x.length, 1.0, x, 1, 0, y, 1, 0 ); console.log( x ); // => <Float64Array>[ -4.0, -2.0, 1.0, 3.0 ] console.log( y ); // => <Float64Array>[ 3.0, 1.0, 0.0, 2.0 ]

The function has the following additional parameters:

• offsetX: x starting index.
• offsetY: y starting index.

While typed array views mandate a view offset based on the underlying buffer, the offset parameter supports indexing semantics based on a starting index. For example, to access only the last three elements of x

import Float64Array from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/stdlib-js/array-float64@esm/index.mjs'; var x = new Float64Array( [ 1.0, -2.0, 3.0, -4.0, 5.0, -6.0 ] ); var y = new Float64Array( [ 0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 ] ); dsort2sh.ndarray( 3, 1.0, x, 1, x.length-3, y, 1, y.length-3 ); console.log( x ); // => <Float64Array>[ 1.0, -2.0, 3.0, -6.0, -4.0, 5.0 ] console.log( y ); // => <Float64Array>[ 0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 5.0, 3.0, 4.0 ]

• If N <= 0 or order == 0.0, both functions leave x and y unchanged.
• The algorithm distinguishes between -0 and +0. When sorted in increasing order, -0 is sorted before +0. When sorted in decreasing order, -0 is sorted after +0.
• The algorithm sorts NaN values to the end. When sorted in increasing order, NaN values are sorted last. When sorted in decreasing order, NaN values are sorted first.
• The algorithm has space complexity O(1) and worst case time complexity O(N^(4/3)).
• The algorithm is efficient for shorter strided arrays (typically N <= 50).
• The algorithm is unstable, meaning that the algorithm may change the order of strided array elements which are equal or equivalent (e.g., NaN values).
• The input strided arrays are sorted in-place (i.e., the input strided arrays are mutated).

• Shell, Donald L. 1959. "A High-Speed Sorting Procedure." Communications of the ACM 2 (7). Association for Computing Machinery: 30–32. doi:10.1145/368370.368387.
• Sedgewick, Robert. 1986. "A new upper bound for Shellsort." Journal of Algorithms 7 (2): 159–73. doi:10.1016/0196-6774(86)90001-5.
• Ciura, Marcin. 2001. "Best Increments for the Average Case of Shellsort." In Fundamentals of Computation Theory, 106–17. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/3-540-44669-9_12.

• @stdlib/blas-ext/base/dsortsh: sort a double-precision floating-point strided array using Shellsort.
• @stdlib/blas-ext/base/gsort2sh: simultaneously sort two strided arrays based on the sort order of the first array using Shellsort.
• @stdlib/blas-ext/base/ssort2sh: simultaneously sort two single-precision floating-point strided arrays based on the sort order of the first array using Shellsort.

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