quill-fastsort 6.0.4

Compiled multi-threaded radix sort backend (quill._fastsort) for quill-sort

quill-fastsort

Compiled multi-threaded radix-sort backend for quill-sort.

This package delivers a single compiled extension module, quill._fastsort (a PyO3 binding over voracious_radix_sort), which quill-sort imports opportunistically. With it installed, quill.sort_array() dispatches int64 / float64 arrays to a multi-threaded radix sort measured at ~5× faster than np.sort (int64) and ~3× faster (float64) on a 28-core machine.

pip install quill-sort quill-fastsort

import quill, numpy as np
quill.available_backends()          # -> ['rust_voracious', ...]
quill.sort_array(np.random.randint(0, 2**31, 10_000_000, dtype=np.int64))

Installing it is purely a speed optimisation: quill-sort works correctly without it, falling back through its backend chain (GPU / polars / numpy) to np.sort. Prebuilt wheels are stable-ABI (abi3, one wheel per platform covers CPython ≥ 3.8). MIT licensed.