use warnings;
use strict;
use Benchmark 'cmpthese';
use constant DO_CHECK => 0;
use if DO_CHECK, 'Data::Compare', qw/Compare/;

my @input = (-50..50);
my @output = (0..50,-50..-1);

use List::Util 'shuffle';
srand 123;
@input = shuffle @input;        # NB. NB. NB. NB.

cmpthese(-2, {
    packz => sub {
        my @list = @input;
        @list = 
            unpack 'i*', pack 'I*',
            sort { $a <=> $b }
            unpack 'I*', pack 'i*', @list;        
        Compare(\@list,\@output) or die "@list" if DO_CHECK;
    },
    Eily => sub { # https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1229411
        my @list = @input;
        @list = sort { ~$b <=> ~$a } @list;
        Compare(\@list,\@output) or die "@list" if DO_CHECK;
    },
});

__END__

         Rate  Eily packz
Eily   6495/s    --  -66%
packz 18967/s  192%    --

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Slow machine here. Shuffled input is important, otherwise Eily's code seems to be faster.

In reply to Re: Fastest way to sort a list of integers into 0,1,2,3,-3,-2,-1 by vr
in thread Fastest way to sort a list of integers into 0,1,2,3,-3,-2,-1 by haukex

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