vxsort is a fast, somewhat novel, hybrid, vectorized quicksort+bitonic primitive sorter implemented in C++.
The name vxsort stands for vectorized 10x sort. It currently supports the following combination of vector ISA and primitive types:

¹ - Requires AVX512/VBMI2 support which is available for all Intel AVX512 CPUs post Icelake, AMD post Zen4

mkdir build
cd build
# For better code-gen
export CC=clang CXX=clang++
cmake .. -G Ninja
ninja

To run tests, use ctest, preferrably with -J $(nproc) to avoid waiting for a long time:

ctest -J $(nproc)

Tests are built into 3 executables (signed integers, unsigned integer, floating-point) per supported vector ISA. This allows for easy to expolit parallelization both whne building and executing the tests.

1. Plug in to a power-source if on laptop
2. Try to kill CPU hogs -or-
3. Alternatively, rely on the supplied run.sh to kill -STOP / -CONT well known CPU hogs

# This script will kill -STOP a bunch of CPU hogs like chrome,
# Then executes
# ./bench/vxsort_bench --benchmark_counters_tabular
# and resume them after it's done
./bench/run.sh