thrust::sort

Defined in thrust/sort.h

template<typename DerivedPolicy, typename RandomAccessIterator>
void thrust::sort(const thrust::detail::execution_policy_base<DerivedPolicy> &exec, RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last)

sort sorts the elements in [first, last) into ascending order, meaning that if i and j are any two valid iterators in [first, last) such that i precedes j, then *j is not less than *i. Note: sort is not guaranteed to be stable. That is, suppose that *i and *j are equivalent: neither one is less than the other. It is not guaranteed that the relative order of these two elements will be preserved by sort.

This version of sort compares objects using operator<.

The algorithm’s execution is parallelized as determined by exec.

The following code snippet demonstrates how to use sort to sort a sequence of integers using the thrust::host execution policy for parallelization:

#include <thrust/sort.h>
#include <thrust/execution_policy.h>
...
const int N = 6;
int A[N] = {1, 4, 2, 8, 5, 7};
thrust::sort(thrust::host, A, A + N);
// A is now {1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8}

See also

stable_sort

See also

sort_by_key

Parameters
  • exec – The execution policy to use for parallelization.

  • first – The beginning of the sequence.

  • last – The end of the sequence.

Template Parameters
  • DerivedPolicy – The name of the derived execution policy.

  • RandomAccessIterator – is a model of Random Access Iterator, RandomAccessIterator is mutable, and RandomAccessIterator's value_type is a model of LessThan Comparable, and the ordering relation on RandomAccessIterator's value_type is a strict weak ordering, as defined in the LessThan Comparable requirements.