Arrays.sort排序算法

java默认的排序算法及思路
List.sort() 还是 Collections.sort底层的排序都是调用了Arrays.sort()方法

Arrays.sort方法如下：

public static <T> void sort(T[] a, Comparator<? super T> c) {
    if (c == null) {
        sort(a);
    } else {
        if (LegacyMergeSort.userRequested)
            legacyMergeSort(a, c);
        else
            TimSort.sort(a, 0, a.length, c, null, 0, 0);
    }
}

主要提供了两种排序算法，mergeSort 和  TimSort.sort
mergeSort思想：归并排序与合并+插入排序，存在问题：对已经反向排好序的输入时复杂度为O(n^2)
timesort思想：先合理分区（两种：时间轴正序或反序），然后再对反序的分区处理，最后进行合并，合并先合并小的，但是增加了针对正向和反向和大规模数据的优化处理。解决上面mergesort的问题。

什么时候用mergesort，什么时候用那个timesort?
LegacyMergeSort.userRequested的字面意思大概就是“用户请求传统归并排序”的意思，通过：
System.setProperty("java.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort", "true");
现在已经默认采用timesort排序
归并算法：归并排序与合并+插入排序（分到最后数据量较小采用）

private static void mergeSort(Object[] src,
                              Object[] dest,
                              int low,
                              int high,
                              int off) {
    int length = high - low;

    // Insertion sort on smallest arrays
    if (length < INSERTIONSORT_THRESHOLD) {
        for (int i=low; i<high; i++)
            for (int j=i; j>low &&
                     ((Comparable) dest[j-1]).compareTo(dest[j])>0; j--)
                swap(dest, j, j-1);
        return;
    }

    // Recursively sort halves of dest into src
    int destLow  = low;
    int destHigh = high;
    low  += off;
    high += off;
    int mid = (low + high) >>> 1;
    mergeSort(dest, src, low, mid, -off);
    mergeSort(dest, src, mid, high, -off);

    // If list is already sorted, just copy from src to dest.  This is an
    // optimization that results in faster sorts for nearly ordered lists.
    if (((Comparable)src[mid-1]).compareTo(src[mid]) <= 0) {
        System.arraycopy(src, low, dest, destLow, length);
        return;
    }

    // Merge sorted halves (now in src) into dest
    for(int i = destLow, p = low, q = mid; i < destHigh; i++) {
        if (q >= high || p < mid && ((Comparable)src[p]).compareTo(src[q])<=0)
            dest[i] = src[p++];
        else
            dest[i] = src[q++];
    }
}
/**
 * Swaps x[a] with x[b].
 */
private static void swap(Object[] x, int a, int b) {
    Object t = x[a];
    x[a] = x[b];
    x[b] = t;
}

timesort 充分运用已有有序序列，合理分区+反转部分分区+合并 ，思想如下：
分区
分区的思想是扫描一次数组，把连续正序列（如果是升序排序，那么正序列就是升序序列）（也就是后面所指的run），如果是反序列，把分区里的元素反转一下。 例如
1，2，3，6，4，5，8，6，4 划分分区结果为
[1,2,3,6],[4,5,8],[6,4]
然后反转反序列
[1,2,3,6],[4,5,8],[4,6]

合并
考虑一个极端的例子，比如分区的长度分别为 10000，10，1000，10，10，我们当然希望是先让10个10合并成20， 20和1000合并成1020如此下去， 如果从从左往右顺序合并的话，每次都用到10000这个数组和去小的数组合并，代价太大了。所以我们可以用一个策略来优化合并的顺序。

static <T> void sort(T[] a, int lo, int hi, Comparator<? super T> c,
                     T[] work, int workBase, int workLen) {
    assert c != null && a != null && lo >= 0 && lo <= hi && hi <= a.length;

    int nRemaining  = hi - lo;
    if (nRemaining < 2)
        return;  // Arrays of size 0 and 1 are always sorted

    // If array is small, do a "mini-TimSort" with no merges
    if (nRemaining < MIN_MERGE) {
        int initRunLen = countRunAndMakeAscending(a, lo, hi, c);
        binarySort(a, lo, hi, lo + initRunLen, c);
        return;
    }

    /**
     * March over the array once, left to right, finding natural runs,
     * extending short natural runs to minRun elements, and merging runs
     * to maintain stack invariant.
     */
    TimSort<T> ts = new TimSort<>(a, c, work, workBase, workLen);
    int minRun = minRunLength(nRemaining);
    do {
        // Identify next run
        int runLen = countRunAndMakeAscending(a, lo, hi, c);

        // If run is short, extend to min(minRun, nRemaining)
        if (runLen < minRun) {
            int force = nRemaining <= minRun ? nRemaining : minRun;
            binarySort(a, lo, lo + force, lo + runLen, c);
            runLen = force;
        }

        // Push run onto pending-run stack, and maybe merge
        ts.pushRun(lo, runLen);
        ts.mergeCollapse();

        // Advance to find next run
        lo += runLen;
        nRemaining -= runLen;
    } while (nRemaining != 0);

    // Merge all remaining runs to complete sort
    assert lo == hi;
    ts.mergeForceCollapse();
    assert ts.stackSize == 1;
}

获取单次运行的方法如下：

/**
 * Returns the minimum acceptable run length for an array of the specified
 * length. Natural runs shorter than this will be extended with
 * {@link #binarySort}.
 *
 * Roughly speaking, the computation is:
 *
 *  If n < MIN_MERGE, return n (it's too small to bother with fancy stuff).
 *  Else if n is an exact power of 2, return MIN_MERGE/2.
 *  Else return an int k, MIN_MERGE/2 <= k <= MIN_MERGE, such that n/k
 *   is close to, but strictly less than, an exact power of 2.
 *
 * For the rationale, see listsort.txt.
 *
 * @param n the length of the array to be sorted
 * @return the length of the minimum run to be merged
 */
private static int minRunLength(int n) {
    assert n >= 0;
    int r = 0;      // Becomes 1 if any 1 bits are shifted off
    while (n >= MIN_MERGE) {
        r |= (n & 1);
        n >>= 1;
    }
    return n + r;
}

二分排序：

private static <T> void binarySort(T[] a, int lo, int hi, int start,
                                   Comparator<? super T> c) {
    assert lo <= start && start <= hi;
    if (start == lo)
        start++;
    for ( ; start < hi; start++) {
        T pivot = a[start];

        // Set left (and right) to the index where a[start] (pivot) belongs
        int left = lo;
        int right = start;
        assert left <= right;
        /*
         * Invariants:
         *   pivot >= all in [lo, left).
         *   pivot <  all in [right, start).
         */
        while (left < right) {
            int mid = (left + right) >>> 1;
            if (c.compare(pivot, a[mid]) < 0)
                right = mid;
            else
                left = mid + 1;
        }
        assert left == right;

        /*
         * The invariants still hold: pivot >= all in [lo, left) and
         * pivot < all in [left, start), so pivot belongs at left.  Note
         * that if there are elements equal to pivot, left points to the
         * first slot after them -- that's why this sort is stable.
         * Slide elements over to make room for pivot.
         */
        int n = start - left;  // The number of elements to move
        // Switch is just an optimization for arraycopy in default case
        switch (n) {
            case 2:  a[left + 2] = a[left + 1];
            case 1:  a[left + 1] = a[left];
                     break;
            default: System.arraycopy(a, left, a, left + 1, n);
        }
        a[left] = pivot;
    }
}

保存处理结果与合并代码如下：

/**
 * Pushes the specified run onto the pending-run stack.
 *
 * @param runBase index of the first element in the run
 * @param runLen  the number of elements in the run
 */
private void pushRun(int runBase, int runLen) {
    this.runBase[stackSize] = runBase;
    this.runLen[stackSize] = runLen;
    stackSize++;
}

/**
 * Examines the stack of runs waiting to be merged and merges adjacent runs
 * until the stack invariants are reestablished:
 *
 *     1. runLen[i - 3] > runLen[i - 2] + runLen[i - 1]
 *     2. runLen[i - 2] > runLen[i - 1]
 *
 * This method is called each time a new run is pushed onto the stack,
 * so the invariants are guaranteed to hold for i < stackSize upon
 * entry to the method.
 */
private void mergeCollapse() {
    while (stackSize > 1) {
        int n = stackSize - 2;
        if (n > 0 && runLen[n-1] <= runLen[n] + runLen[n+1]) {
            if (runLen[n - 1] < runLen[n + 1])
                n--;
            mergeAt(n);
        } else if (runLen[n] <= runLen[n + 1]) {
            mergeAt(n);
        } else {
            break; // Invariant is established
        }
    }
}