In order to implement an asynchronous builtins.sort (required for
moving builtins to generators), we need an `async` sorting algorithm
as our comparators involve invoking a Nix function.
This commit implements a fairly simple, optimised bubble sort as the
sorting algorithm used in our `async fn sort_by`.
There don't seem to be any crates providing async versions of things
like this, and they might actually be pretty hard to implement
generically due to some constraints about how `async` works.
Note that this algorithm is less efficient than the hybrid
"timsort/mergesort/insert sort" used in the Rust standard library. I
tried to write a merge sort implementation, but ran into isuses with
the sort becoming unstable because our comparators can not yield
equality. This is the simplest implementation which I know to be
correct.
Note that as of this commit this is *not* covered by the Tvix test
suite, but it will be as soon as the rest of the generator code lands.
Change-Id: Ia9a604f7dd941d6acc9212c902e0e637ed75bebc
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8239
Reviewed-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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