Comparisons on random input, n = 8,192

Comparisons on random input, n = 8,192

4 of these are what a standard library actually runs. Timsort is lowest at 95,770 and Introsort highest at 130,863, a factor of 1.37. Changing the counter changes the order, which is the reason this field measures four of them and refuses to name a winner.

Drawn at 700 × 216, wide on the page. Everything above is what library-scoreboard returns with no arguments; the caption is the generator's own, computed from the numbers in the drawing rather than written beside it.

6 essays call library-scoreboard. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about — which is what optcheck and figfill exist to catch.