问题
Evidently LINQ\'s \"OrderBy\" had originally been specified as unstable, but by the time of Orca it was specified as stable. Not all documentation has been updated accordingly - consider these links:
- Jon Skeet on OrderBy stability
- Troy Magennis on OrderBy stability
But if LINQ\'s OrderBy is now \"stable,\" then it means it is not using a quicksort (which is inherently unstable) even though some documentation (e.g. Troy\'s book) says it is. So my question is: if not quicksort, then what is the actual algorithm LINQ\'s orderBy is using?
回答1:
For LINQ to Objects, it's a stable quicksort that is used. For any other kind of LINQ, it's left to the underlying implementation.
回答2:
Boot up reflector, open to System.Linq.EnumerableSorter reveals that Linq2Objects uses the quick sort
回答3:
Quicksort is used, but the reason why it is stable is because the indices of each pair of elements are compared if all the keys test equal.
In other words, you can make any quicksort stable by including in the comparator function a comparison of the original indices of the two elements as a fallback.
Source: http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.Core/System/Linq/Enumerable.cs,1395017e067e5a34
回答4:
I am under the understanding that OrderBy gets translated into SQL that performs the sort on the Database. At least in the case of LINQ to SQL
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2792074/what-sorting-algorithm-is-used-by-linq-orderby