Java面试List中的sort详细解读

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最近看了一些排序相关的文章,因此比较好奇,Java 中的排序是如何做的。本片文章介绍的是 JDK1.8,List 中的 sort 方法。
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先来看看 List 中的 sort 是怎么写的:

    @SuppressWarnings({"unchecked", "rawtypes"})
    default void sort(Comparator<? super E> c) {Object[] a = this.toArray();
        Arrays.sort(a, (Comparator) c);
        ListIterator<E> i = this.listIterator();
        for (Object e : a) {i.next();
            i.set((E) e);
        }
    }

首先,你需要传入一个比较器作为参数,这个好理解,毕竟你肯定要定一个比较标准。然后就是将 list 转换成一个数组,再对这个数组进行排序,排序完之后,再利用 iterator 重新改变 list。

接着,我们再来看看 Arrays.sort:

    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);
        }
    }

    public static void sort(Object[] a) {if (LegacyMergeSort.userRequested)
            legacyMergeSort(a);
        else
            ComparableTimSort.sort(a, 0, a.length, null, 0, 0);
    }

    static final class LegacyMergeSort {
        private static final boolean userRequested =
            java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(
                new sun.security.action.GetBooleanAction("java.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort")).booleanValue();}

这样可以看出,其实排序的核心就是 TimSort,LegacyMergeSort 大致意思是表明如果版本很旧的话,就用这个,新版本是不会采用这种排序方式的。

我们再来看看 TimSort 的实现:

    private static final int MIN_MERGE = 32;
    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) {
            // 获得最长的递增序列
            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;
    }

如果小于 2 个,代表不再不需要排序;如果小于 32 个,则采用优化的二分排序。怎么优化的呢?首先获得最长的递增序列:

    private static <T> int countRunAndMakeAscending(T[] a, int lo, int hi,
                                                    Comparator<? super T> c) {
        assert lo < hi;
        int runHi = lo + 1;
        if (runHi == hi)
            return 1;

        // Find end of run, and reverse range if descending
        if (c.compare(a[runHi++], a[lo]) < 0) { // Descending
            // 一开始是递减序列,就找出最长递减序列的最后一个下标
            while (runHi < hi && c.compare(a[runHi], a[runHi - 1]) < 0)
                runHi++;
            // 逆转前面的递减序列
            reverseRange(a, lo, runHi);
        } else {                              // Ascending
            while (runHi < hi && c.compare(a[runHi], a[runHi - 1]) >= 0)
                runHi++;
        }

        return runHi - lo;
    }

接着进行二分排序:

    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).
             */
            // start 位置是递增序列后的第一个数的位置
            // 从前面的递增序列中找出 start 位置的数应该处于的位置
            while (left < right) {
                // >>> 无符号右移
                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
            // 比 pivot 大的数往后移动一位
            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;
        }
    }

好了,待排序数量小于 32 个的讲完了,现在来说说大于等于 32 个情况。首先,获得一个叫 minRun 的东西,这是个啥含义呢:

    int minRun = minRunLength(nRemaining);
    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) {// 这里我没搞懂的是为什么不直接将 (n & 1) 赋值给 r,而要做一次逻辑或。r |= (n & 1);
            n >>= 1;
        }
        return n + r;
    }

各种位运算符,MIN_MERGE 默认为 32,如果 n 小于此值,那么返回 n 本身。否则会将 n 不断地右移,直到小于 MIN_MERGE,同时记录一个 r 值,r 代表最后一次移位 n 时,n 最低位是 0 还是 1。
其实看注释比较容易理解:

Returns the minimum acceptable run length for an array of the specified length. Natural runs shorter than this will be extended with 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.

返回结果其实就是用于接下来的合并排序中。

接下来就是一个 while 循环

        do {
            // Identify next run
            // 获得一个最长递增序列
            int runLen = countRunAndMakeAscending(a, lo, hi, c);

            // If run is short, extend to min(minRun, nRemaining)
            // 如果最长递增序列
            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
            // lo——runLen 为将要被归并的范围
            ts.pushRun(lo, runLen);
            // 归并
            ts.mergeCollapse();

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

这样,假设你的每次归并排序的两个序列为 r1 和 r2,r1 肯定是有序的,r2 也已经被排成递增序列了,因此这样的归并排序就比较特殊了。

为什么要用归并排序呢,因为归并排序的时间复杂度永远为 O(nlogn),空间复杂度为 O(n),以空间换取时间。

好了,以上就是针对 Java 中的排序做的一次总结,但具体的归并代码还没有分析,其实我自己也没有完全研究透,为什么 minRun 的取值是这样的,这也和 TimSort 中的 stackLen 有关,有兴趣的小伙伴可以在下方留言,我们可以一起探讨。
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