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1#!./perl
2
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3# This tests the behavior of sort() under the different 'use sort' forms.
4# Algorithm by John P. Linderman.
5
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6my ($BigWidth, $BigEnough, $RootWidth, $ItemFormat, @TestSizes, $WellSoaked);
7
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8BEGIN {
9 chdir 't' if -d 't';
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10 @INC = qw(../lib);
11 $BigWidth = 6; # Digits in $BigEnough-1
12 $BigEnough = 10**$BigWidth; # Largest array we'll attempt
13 $RootWidth = int(($BigWidth+1)/2); # Digits in sqrt($BigEnough-1)
14 $ItemFormat = "%0${RootWidth}d%0${BigWidth}d"; # Array item format
15 @TestSizes = (0, 1, 2); # Small special cases
16 # Testing all the way up to $BigEnough takes too long
17 # for casual testing. There are some cutoffs (~256)
18 # in pp_sort that should be tested, but 10_000 is ample.
19 $WellSoaked = 10_000; # <= $BigEnough
20 for (my $ts = 3; $ts < $WellSoaked; $ts *= 10**(1/3)) {
21 push(@TestSizes, int($ts)); # about 3 per decade
22 }
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23}
24
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25use strict;
26use warnings;
27
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28use Test::More tests => @TestSizes * 2 # sort() tests
29 * 4 # number of pragmas to test
30 + 1 # extra test for qsort instability
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31 + 3 # tests for sort::current
32 + 3; # tests for "defaults" and "no sort"
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34# Generate array of specified size for testing sort.
35#
36# We ensure repeated items, where possible, by drawing the $size items
37# from a pool of size sqrt($size). Each randomly chosen item is
38# tagged with the item index, so we can detect original input order,
39# and reconstruct the original array order.
40
41sub genarray {
42 my $size = int(shift); # fractions not welcome
43 my ($items, $i);
44 my @a;
45
46 if ($size < 0) { $size = 0; } # avoid complexity with sqrt
47 elsif ($size > $BigEnough) { $size = $BigEnough; }
48 $#a = $size - 1; # preallocate array
49 $items = int(sqrt($size)); # number of distinct items
50 for ($i = 0; $i < $size; ++$i) {
51 $a[$i] = sprintf($ItemFormat, int($items * rand()), $i);
52 }
53 return \@a;
54}
55
56
57# Check for correct order (including stability)
58
59sub checkorder {
60 my $aref = shift;
61 my $status = ''; # so far, so good
28e9118f 62 my ($i, $disorder);
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63
64 for ($i = 0; $i < $#$aref; ++$i) {
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65 # Equality shouldn't happen, but catch it in the contents check
66 next if ($aref->[$i] le $aref->[$i+1]);
67 $disorder = (substr($aref->[$i], 0, $RootWidth) eq
68 substr($aref->[$i+1], 0, $RootWidth)) ?
69 "Instability" : "Disorder";
70 # Keep checking if merely unstable... disorder is much worse.
71 $status =
72 "$disorder at element $i between $aref->[$i] and $aref->[$i+1]";
73 last unless ($disorder eq "Instability");
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74 }
75 return $status;
76}
77
78
79# Verify that the two array refs reference identical arrays
80
81sub checkequal {
82 my ($aref, $bref) = @_;
83 my $status = '';
84 my $i;
85
86 if (@$aref != @$bref) {
87 $status = "Sizes differ: " . @$aref . " vs " . @$bref;
88 } else {
89 for ($i = 0; $i < @$aref; ++$i) {
90 next if ($aref->[$i] eq $bref->[$i]);
91 $status = "Element $i differs: $aref->[$i] vs $bref->[$i]";
92 last;
93 }
94 }
95 return $status;
96}
97
98
99# Test sort on arrays of various sizes (set up in @TestSizes)
100
101sub main {
102 my ($expect_unstable) = @_;
103 my ($ts, $unsorted, @sorted, $status);
104 my $unstable_num = 0;
105
106 foreach $ts (@TestSizes) {
107 $unsorted = genarray($ts);
108 # Sort only on item portion of each element.
109 # There will typically be many repeated items,
110 # and their order had better be preserved.
111 @sorted = sort { substr($a, 0, $RootWidth)
112 cmp
113 substr($b, 0, $RootWidth) } @$unsorted;
114 $status = checkorder(\@sorted);
115 # Put the items back into the original order.
116 # The contents of the arrays had better be identical.
117 if ($expect_unstable && $status =~ /^Instability/) {
118 $status = '';
119 ++$unstable_num;
120 }
121 is($status, '', "order ok for size $ts");
122 @sorted = sort { substr($a, $RootWidth)
123 cmp
124 substr($b, $RootWidth) } @sorted;
125 $status = checkequal(\@sorted, $unsorted);
126 is($status, '', "contents ok for size $ts");
127 }
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128 # If the following test (#58) fails, see the comments in pp_sort.c
129 # for Perl_sortsv().
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130 if ($expect_unstable) {
131 ok($unstable_num > 0, 'Instability ok');
132 }
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133}
134
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135# Test with no pragma still loaded -- stability expected (this is a mergesort)
136main(0);
137
138# XXX We're using this eval "..." trick to force recompilation,
139# to ensure that the correct pragma is enabled when main() is run.
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140# Currently 'use sort' modifies $sort::hints at compile-time, but
141# pp_sort() fetches its value at run-time.
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142# The order of those evals is important.
143
144eval q{
145 use sort qw(_qsort);
146 is(sort::current(), 'quicksort', 'sort::current for _qsort');
147 main(1);
148};
149die $@ if $@;
150
151eval q{
152 use sort qw(_mergesort);
153 is(sort::current(), 'mergesort', 'sort::current for _mergesort');
154 main(0);
155};
156die $@ if $@;
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158eval q{
159 use sort qw(_qsort stable);
160 is(sort::current(), 'quicksort stable', 'sort::current for _qsort stable');
161 main(0);
162};
163die $@ if $@;
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164
165# Tests added to check "defaults" subpragma, and "no sort"
166
167eval q{
168 no sort qw(_qsort);
169 is(sort::current(), 'stable', 'sort::current after no _qsort');
170};
171die $@ if $@;
172
173eval q{
174 use sort qw(defaults _qsort);
175 is(sort::current(), 'quicksort', 'sort::current after defaults _qsort');
176};
177die $@ if $@;
178
179eval q{
180 use sort qw(defaults stable);
181 is(sort::current(), 'stable', 'sort::current after defaults stable');
182};
183die $@ if $@;