Miscellaneous

• Accelerate qsort, qselect and partial_qsort for _Float16 on ICX.
• Resolved a performance regression for 16-bit data types caused by the compiler dynamically allocating constant arrays.
• Improve argsort performance for already sorted arrays by adding early detection.

List of PR's merged

• Fix for MMX instructions being generated without emms by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/172
• Expose C-API's for some of the keyvalue qsort by @r-devulap in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/173
• Fix and Cleanup C API code by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/181
• Fix kvsort/kvselect nan behavior and added tests for mixed nan/inf arrays by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/178
• Add defensive EMMS instructions to each SIMD sort function by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/183
• Hopefully fix scorecard.yml actions by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/186
• Update readme file for static methods by @r-devulap in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/185
• Fix avx512fp16 build by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/187
• Change scorecard runner to ubuntu-latest by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/188
• Change 16-bit swizzle from vector to C arrays by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/190
• Adds OpenMP to qsort, should also improve test speed a bit by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/179
• Readme fix: argsort doesn't do 16-bit by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/192
• Fixes some tests/bugs, and adds a build with sanitizers, add ASAN CI run by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/182
• Add OpenMP support to argsort by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/195
• Add early exit for argsort if array is already sorted by @r-devulap in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/197
• Avoid use of _mm512_set_epi16 for reversing 16-bit vectors by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/198
• Add Meson dependency declaration for use as a subproject by @blazingpretzel in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/199
• Enable fp16 nonnative support for dynamic dispatch, make more ergonomic for static dispatch by @sterrettm2 in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/200
• New helper function to determine number of threads when using openMP by @r-devulap in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/203
• Prep for v7.0 and refactor openMP build flags by @r-devulap in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/204

New Contributors

• @blazingpretzel made their first contribution in https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/pull/199

Full Changelog: https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort/compare/v6.0...v7.0