<# .SYNOPSIS Measures the speed of HeapSort .DESCRIPTION This PowerShell script measures the speed of the HeapSort algorithm. HeapSort is a comparison-based sorting algorithm. Heapsort can be thought of as an improved selection sort: like selection sort, heapsort divides its input into a sorted and an unsorted region, and it iteratively shrinks the unsorted region by extracting the largest element from it and inserting it into the sorted region. Unlike selection sort, heapsort does not waste time with a linear-time scan of the unsorted region; rather, heap sort maintains the unsorted region in a heap data structure to more quickly find the largest element in each step. .PARAMETER numIntegers Specifies the number of integers to sort .EXAMPLE PS> ./measure-HeapSort.ps1 🧭 0.614 sec to sort 1000 integers by HeapSort .LINK https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell .NOTES Author: Markus Fleschutz | License: CC0 #> param([int]$numIntegers = 1000) class HeapSort { static Sort($targetList) { $heapSize = $targetList.Count for ([int]$p = ($heapSize - 1) / 2; $p -ge 0; $p--) { [HeapSort]::MaxHeapify($targetList, $heapSize, $p) } for ($i = $targetList.Count - 1; $i -gt 0; $i--) { $temp = $targetList[$i] $targetList[$i] = $targetList[0] $targetList[0] = $temp $heapSize-- [HeapSort]::MaxHeapify($targetList, $heapSize, 0) } } static MaxHeapify($targetList, $heapSize, $index) { $left = ($index + 1) * 2 - 1 $right = ($index + 1) * 2 $largest = 0 if ($left -lt $heapSize -and $targetList[$left] -gt $targetList[$index]) { $largest = $left } else { $largest = $index } if ($right -lt $heapSize -and $targetList[$right] -gt $targetList[$largest]) { $largest = $right } if ($largest -ne $index) { $temp = $targetList[$index] $targetList[$index] = $targetList[$largest] $targetList[$largest] = $temp [HeapSort]::MaxHeapify($targetList, $heapSize, $largest) } } } $list = (1..$numIntegers | foreach{Get-Random -minimum 1 -maximum $numIntegers}) $stopWatch = [system.diagnostics.stopwatch]::startNew() [HeapSort]::Sort($list) [float]$elapsed = $stopWatch.Elapsed.TotalSeconds $elapsed3 = "{0:N3}" -f $elapsed # formatted to 3 decimal places "🧭 $elapsed3 sec to sort $numIntegers integers by HeapSort" exit 0 # success