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scandum/quadsort

Quadsort is a branchless stable adaptive mergesort faster than quicksort. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/scandum/quadsort · C · Unlicense (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 2395
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 767
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2203 stars · 110 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Quadsort is a branchless stable adaptive merge sort implemented in C, designed to outperform quicksort on many workloads. It uses a quad swap analyzer to detect ordered and reverse-ordered data with minimal comparisons before merging.

Use cases

  • sort arrays faster than quicksort
  • stable sorting in C
  • sort nearly-ordered data efficiently
  • branchless sorting algorithm
  • compare sorting algorithms like timsort
  • learn how adaptive merge sort works

When to choose

  • You need a stable, adaptive sort in C with strong performance on partially ordered data
  • You want a public-domain (Unlicense) sorting implementation to embed in a project
  • You are benchmarking or studying sorting algorithm design

When to avoid

  • You need a sort in a language other than C without porting
  • You just need a built-in standard library sort and don't care about micro-optimizations
  • You need parallel or external (disk-based) sorting

Facets

library · maturity active

benchmarking math performance developer-tools c cross-platform sorting merge-sort branchless stable-sort adaptive-sort algorithms

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Member repositories

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