下面是使用lambdas的代码

#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>

using namespace std;

struct MyStruct
{
    int key;
    std::string stringValue;

    MyStruct(int k, const std::string& s) : key(k), stringValue(s) {}
};

int main()
{
    std::vector < MyStruct > vec;

    vec.push_back(MyStruct(4, "test"));
    vec.push_back(MyStruct(3, "a"));
    vec.push_back(MyStruct(2, "is"));
    vec.push_back(MyStruct(1, "this"));

    std::sort(vec.begin(), vec.end(), 
        [] (const MyStruct& struct1, const MyStruct& struct2)
        {
            return (struct1.key < struct2.key);
        }
    );
    return 0;
}

    // sort algorithm example
    #include <iostream>     // std::cout
    #include <algorithm>    // std::sort
    #include <vector>       // std::vector
    using namespace std;
    int main () {
        char myints[] = {'F','C','E','G','A','H','B','D'};
        vector<char> myvector (myints, myints+8);               // 32 71 12 45 26 80 53 33
        // using default comparison (operator <):
        sort (myvector.begin(), myvector.end());           //(12 32 45 71)26 80 53 33
        // print out content:
        cout << "myvector contains:";
        for (int i=0; i!=8; i++)
            cout << ' ' <<myvector[i];
        cout << '\n';
        system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
    }

你的思路是对的。Std::sort默认使用操作符<作为比较函数。所以为了对对象排序，你要么重载bool操作符<(const T&， const T&)，要么提供一个函数对象来进行比较，就像这样:

 struct C {
    int i;
    static bool before( const C& c1, const C& c2 ) { return c1.i < c2.i; }
 };

 bool operator<( const C& c1, const C& c2 ) { return c1.i > c2.i; }

 std::vector<C> values;

 std::sort( values.begin(), values.end() ); // uses operator<
 std::sort( values.begin(), values.end(), C::before );

使用函数对象的好处是可以使用函数访问类的私有成员。

您可以使用用户定义的比较器类。

class comparator
{
    int x;
    bool operator()( const comparator &m,  const comparator &n )
    { 
       return m.x<n.x;
    }
 }

我很好奇在调用std::sort的各种方式之间是否有任何可测量的性能影响，所以我创建了这个简单的测试:

$ cat sort.cpp
#include<algorithm>
#include<iostream>
#include<vector>
#include<chrono>

#define COMPILER_BARRIER() asm volatile("" ::: "memory");

typedef unsigned long int ulint;

using namespace std;

struct S {
  int x;
  int y;
};

#define BODY { return s1.x*s2.y < s2.x*s1.y; }

bool operator<( const S& s1, const S& s2 ) BODY
bool Sgreater_func( const S& s1, const S& s2 ) BODY

struct Sgreater {
  bool operator()( const S& s1, const S& s2 ) const BODY
};

void sort_by_operator(vector<S> & v){
  sort(v.begin(), v.end());
}

void sort_by_lambda(vector<S> & v){
  sort(v.begin(), v.end(), []( const S& s1, const S& s2 ) BODY );
}

void sort_by_functor(vector<S> &v){
  sort(v.begin(), v.end(), Sgreater());
}

void sort_by_function(vector<S> &v){
  sort(v.begin(), v.end(), &Sgreater_func);
}

const int N = 10000000;
vector<S> random_vector;

ulint run(void foo(vector<S> &v)){
  vector<S> tmp(random_vector);
  foo(tmp);
  ulint checksum = 0;
  for(int i=0;i<tmp.size();++i){
     checksum += i *tmp[i].x ^ tmp[i].y;
  }
  return checksum;
}

void measure(void foo(vector<S> & v)){

ulint check_sum = 0;

  // warm up
  const int WARMUP_ROUNDS = 3;
  const int TEST_ROUNDS = 10;

  for(int t=WARMUP_ROUNDS;t--;){
    COMPILER_BARRIER();
    check_sum += run(foo);
    COMPILER_BARRIER();
  }

  for(int t=TEST_ROUNDS;t--;){
    COMPILER_BARRIER();
    auto start = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
    COMPILER_BARRIER();
    check_sum += run(foo);
    COMPILER_BARRIER();
    auto end = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
    COMPILER_BARRIER();
    auto duration_ns = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::duration<double>>(end - start).count();

    cout << "Took " << duration_ns << "s to complete round" << endl;
  }

  cout << "Checksum: " << check_sum << endl;
}

#define M(x) \
  cout << "Measure " #x " on " << N << " items:" << endl;\
  measure(x);

int main(){
  random_vector.reserve(N);

  for(int i=0;i<N;++i){
    random_vector.push_back(S{rand(), rand()});
  }

  M(sort_by_operator);
  M(sort_by_lambda);
  M(sort_by_functor);
  M(sort_by_function);
  return 0;
}

它所做的是创建一个随机向量，然后测量复制它所需的时间并对它的副本进行排序(并计算一些校验和以避免过于激烈的死代码消除)。

我是用g++ (GCC) 7.2.1 20170829 (Red Hat 7.2.1-1)编译的

$ g++ -O2 -o sort sort.cpp && ./sort

结果如下:

Measure sort_by_operator on 10000000 items:
Took 0.994285s to complete round
Took 0.990162s to complete round
Took 0.992103s to complete round
Took 0.989638s to complete round
Took 0.98105s to complete round
Took 0.991913s to complete round
Took 0.992176s to complete round
Took 0.981706s to complete round
Took 0.99021s to complete round
Took 0.988841s to complete round
Checksum: 18446656212269526361
Measure sort_by_lambda on 10000000 items:
Took 0.974274s to complete round
Took 0.97298s to complete round
Took 0.964506s to complete round
Took 0.96899s to complete round
Took 0.965773s to complete round
Took 0.96457s to complete round
Took 0.974286s to complete round
Took 0.975524s to complete round
Took 0.966238s to complete round
Took 0.964676s to complete round
Checksum: 18446656212269526361
Measure sort_by_functor on 10000000 items:
Took 0.964359s to complete round
Took 0.979619s to complete round
Took 0.974027s to complete round
Took 0.964671s to complete round
Took 0.964764s to complete round
Took 0.966491s to complete round
Took 0.964706s to complete round
Took 0.965115s to complete round
Took 0.964352s to complete round
Took 0.968954s to complete round
Checksum: 18446656212269526361
Measure sort_by_function on 10000000 items:
Took 1.29942s to complete round
Took 1.3029s to complete round
Took 1.29931s to complete round
Took 1.29946s to complete round
Took 1.29837s to complete round
Took 1.30132s to complete round
Took 1.3023s to complete round
Took 1.30997s to complete round
Took 1.30819s to complete round
Took 1.3003s to complete round
Checksum: 18446656212269526361

看起来除了传递函数指针之外的所有选项都非常相似，传递函数指针会导致+30%的惩罚。

它看起来还像操作符< version慢了1%(我重复了多次测试，效果仍然存在)，这有点奇怪，因为它表明生成的代码是不同的(我缺乏分析的技能—save-temps输出)。

在类中，可以重载"<"操作符。

class MyClass
{
  bool operator <(const MyClass& rhs)
  {
    return this->key < rhs.key;
  }
}