thrust::partition

Defined in thrust/partition.h

template<typename ForwardIterator, typename Predicate> ForwardIterator thrust::partition(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Predicate pred)

partition reorders the elements [first, last) based on the function object pred, such that all of the elements that satisfy pred precede the elements that fail to satisfy it. The postcondition is that, for some iterator middle in the range [first, last), pred(*i) is true for every iterator i in the range [first,middle) and false for every iterator i in the range [middle, last). The return value of partition is middle.

Note that the relative order of elements in the two reordered sequences is not necessarily the same as it was in the original sequence. A different algorithm, stable_partition, does guarantee to preserve the relative order.

The following code snippet demonstrates how to use partition to reorder a sequence so that even numbers precede odd numbers.

#include <thrust/partition.h>
...
struct is_even
{
  __host__ __device__
  bool operator()(const int &x)
  {
    return (x % 2) == 0;
  }
};
...
int A[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10};
const int N = sizeof(A)/sizeof(int);
thrust::partition(A, A + N,
                   is_even());
// A is now {2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9}