Auto merge of #143495 - AngelicosPhosphoros:angelicos_phosphoros/skip_run_detection_in_sort_unstable, r=<try>

Skip `find_existing_run` call if head and tail pairs sorted differently

This would help to avoid running comparator for all elements when user pushed an element to end of sorted Vec, breaking order only in last element.

r? `@Voultapher`

Author: rust-bors[bot]

library/core/src/slice/sort/unstable/mod.rs

@@ -63,19 +63,31 @@ where
     F: FnMut(&T, &T) -> bool,
 {
     let len = v.len();
-    let (run_len, was_reversed) = find_existing_run(v, is_less);
+    let check_existing_run = 'cer: {
+        let v = &v[..];
+        // Skip `find_existing_run` if head and tail sorted in different orders
+        // because we are interested only if the whole slice is sorted.
+        // This should skip running `find_existing_run` for an almost whole slice
+        // in cases when user tries to sort a vector after single call to push.
+        let [h0, h1, ..] = v else { break 'cer true };
+        let [.., t0, t1] = v else { break 'cer true };
+        (is_less(h0, h1) && !is_less(t1, t0)) || (is_less(h1, h0) && !is_less(t0, t1))
+    };
+    if check_existing_run {
+        let (run_len, was_reversed) = find_existing_run(v, is_less);
 
-    // SAFETY: find_existing_run promises to return a valid run_len.
-    unsafe { intrinsics::assume(run_len <= len) };
+        // SAFETY: find_existing_run promises to return a valid run_len.
+        unsafe { intrinsics::assume(run_len <= len) };
 
-    if run_len == len {
-        if was_reversed {
-            v.reverse();
-        }
+        if run_len == len {
+            if was_reversed {
+                v.reverse();
+            }
 
-        // It would be possible to a do in-place merging here for a long existing streak. But that
-        // makes the implementation a lot bigger, users can use `slice::sort` for that use-case.
-        return;
+            // It would be possible to a do in-place merging here for a long existing streak. But that
+            // makes the implementation a lot bigger, users can use `slice::sort` for that use-case.
+            return;
+        }
     }
 
     // Limit the number of imbalanced partitions to `2 * floor(log2(len))`.