Hello everyone,
Reposting, I think my previous attempt got stuck in a filter or something,
because I somehow managed to have the code there in several copies.
I was thinking about sorting algorithms yesterday and I realized that ES
implementations may have different sorting algorithms in use, and decided
to try it out. Now, if you sort strings or numbers, it doesn't matter, but
you may be sorting objects by a key and this is where things get nasty
(think non-deterministic vs deterministic). Here's an example:
function shuffle (arr, depth) {
var tmp = []
var pi = String(Math.PI).substr(2)
var i = 0
var p = 0
while (arr.length) {
i = (i + +pi[p]) % arr.length
p = (p + 1) % pi.length
tmp.push(arr[i])
arr.splice(i, 1)
}
if (!depth) return tmp
return shuffle(tmp, depth - 1)
}
var unique = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstu'
var sorter = 'deggeaeasemiuololizor'
var arr = Array.apply(null, Array(unique.length)).map(function (a, i) {
return {
unique: unique[i],
sorter: sorter.charCodeAt(i)
}
})
var original = shuffle(arr, 3)
var sorted = original.slice().sort(function (a, b) {
return a.sorter - b.sorter
})
console.log(original.map(function (item) { return item.unique }))
console.log(sorted.map(function (item) { return item.unique }))
function shuffle (arr, depth) {
/* it's a silly way to shuffle, but at least it's deterministic. */
var tmp = []
var pi = String(Math.PI).substr(2)
var i = 0
var p = 0
while (arr.length) {
i = (i + +pi[p]) % arr.length
p = (p + 1) % pi.length
tmp.push(arr[i])
arr.splice(i, 1)
}
if (!depth) return tmp
return shuffle(tmp, depth - 1)
}
var unique = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstu'
var sorter = 'deggeaeasemiuololizor'
var arr = Array.apply(null, Array(unique.length)).map(
function (a, i) {
return {
unique: unique[i],
sorter: sorter.charCodeAt(i)
}
})
var original = shuffle(arr, 3)
var sorted = original.slice().sort(function (a, b) {
return a.sorter - b.sorter
})
console.log(original.map(function (item) { return item.unique }))
console.log(sorted.map(function (item) { return item.unique }))
In Firefox, you get:
["s", "m", "q", "l", "e", "b", "k", "i", "f", "g", "o", "j", "d", "t", "n",
"c", "a", "p", "h", "r", "u"]
["f", "h", "a", "e", "b", "g", "j", "d", "c", "l", "r", "q", "o", "k", "t",
"n", "p", "u", "i", "m", "s"]
In Chrome, you get:
["s", "m", "q", "l", "e", "b", "k", "i", "f", "g", "o", "j", "d", "t", "n",
"c", "a", "p", "h", "r", "u"]
["f", "h", "a", "g", "e", "b", "j", "d", "c", "l", "r", "o", "q", "k", "n",
"t", "p", "u", "i", "m", "s"]
Real world consequences of this may include:
* A blog where posts are sorted by date ("YYYY/MM/DD"). Different browsers
will show the posts in different order if Array#sort is used to accomplish
this. Not a very severe consequence.
* A spreadsheet application. If it has some order-dependent algorithm to
calculate values, different browsers can give different results for the
same research data.
Now I'm not sure what could be done to this, if anything even should be,
just thought I'd bring it up.
Cheers,
Jussi
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