Parallel hybrid dual pivot sorting algorithm
Surapong Taotiamton, Surin Kittitornkun · 2017
Sorting is one of the common problems in Computer Science and data analytics. This paper presents empirical results of parallel Hybrid Dual Pivot Sort (HDPSort) for multicore/manycore CPU systems. HDPSort makes use of both classic Lomuto and Hoare partioning algorithms with two pivot values in parallel. It is developed in C++ with OpenMP 3.0 or better. HDPSort is benchmarked with the sequential STLSort in terms of run time, instruction count and branch load. The Speedups of HDPSort are up to 3.02× and 2.79× faster than the STLSort on 8-core AMD FX-8320 and 4-core Intel i7-2600 Linux systems, respectively. An indepth analysis shows that HDPSort gains the Speedup by 300% over STLSort at the expense of 1%-4% of branch mispredictions.