Radix Sort by JavaScript

Question

I came up with the following, but it is not expected to work.

var t = new Array(a.length);
var r = 4;
var b = 64;

var count = new Array(1<<r);
var pref = new Array(1<<r);

var groups = Math.ceil(b / r);

var mask = (1 << r) - 1;

var shift = 0;
for(var c = 0; c < groups; c++)
{
    shift += r;

    for(var j = 0; j < count.length; j++)
    {
        count[j] = 0;
    }

    for(var i = 0; i < a.length; i++)
    {
        count[ (a[i] >> shift) & mask ]++;
    }

    pref[0] = 0;

    for(var i = 0; i < count.length; i++)
    {
        pref[i] = pref[i-1] + count[i-1];
    }

    for(var i = 0; i < a.length; i++)
    {
        t[ pref[ (a[i] >> shift) & mask ]++ ] = a[i];
    }

    for(var i = 0; i < a.length; i++)
    {
        a[i] = t[i];
    }
    // a is sorted?
}

Answer 1

This loop does basically the same thing, more than in Javascript-y:

for (var div = 1, radix = 16; div < 65536 * 65536; div *= radix) {
  var piles = [];

  for (var i = 0; i < a.length; ++i) {
    var p = Math.floor(a[i] / div) % radix;
    (piles[p] || (piles[p] = [])).push(a[i]);
  }

  for (var i = 0, ai = 0; i < piles.length; ++i) {
    if (!piles[i]) continue;
    for (var pi = 0; pi < piles[i].length; ++pi)
      a[ai++] = piles[i][pi];
  }
}

Instead of doing this as a C programmer, this loop creates a list of lists, one list for each possible 4-bit value. I avoid bit-shift operators because this is Javascript, and as long as they work, everything gets funny when numbers get large.

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Answer 2

this

for(var i = 0; i < count.length; i++) 
{ 
    pref[i] = pref[i-1] + count[i-1]; 
} 

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