Figure 1. Sorting Approaches: (a) bubble sort and (b) merge sort. Listing 1: C-simulation code for bubble sort method. In the merge sort method, we start by dividing the array A into one element ...

Usually, we specify the complexity of an algorithm using the notation O(.), which indicate 'the order of'. For example, the complexity of sorting N numbers using the bubble sort method is O(N2) and ...

Sorting is so basic that algorithms are built into most standard libraries for programming languages. And, in the case of the C++ library used with the LLVM compiler, the code hasn't been touched ...

In recent years with the advent of programming techniques, parallel programming consumes less execution time as compared to sequential. The odd-even merge sort algorithm was developed by K.E. Batcher.

When asked to create a sorting algorithm, AlphaDev came up with one that was 70 per cent faster than the best for lists of five pieces of data and 1.7 per cent faster for lists of over 250,000 items.