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Parallel sort [message #45793] Tue, 05 January 2016 19:03 Go to previous message
mirek is currently offline  mirek
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Inspired by hugely misleading article here:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1062000/Multithreaded-Pa rallel-Selection-Sort-Algorithm-Us

I have decided it is time to provide parallel sort Smile I guess it will a nice theme for the next CodeProject article and also a beginning of eventual 'parallel algorithms' part of Core (although I am not a huge believer in low-level parallel routines).

Here is the code, including simple benchmark:

#include <Core/Core.h>

using namespace Upp;

struct CoSorter {
	CoWork cw;
	
	enum { PARALLEL_THRESHOLD = 50 };

	template <class I, class Less>
	void CoSort(I l, I h, const Less& less)
	{
		for(;;) {
			int count = int(h - l);
			if(count < 2)
				return;
			if(count < 8) {                         // Final optimized SelectSort
				ForwardSort(l, h, less);
				return;
			}
			int pass = 4;
			for(;;) {
				I middle = l + (count >> 1);        // get the middle element
				OrderIter2__(l, middle, less);      // sort l, middle, h-1 to find median of 3
				OrderIter2__(middle, h - 1, less);
				OrderIter2__(l, middle, less);      // median is now in middle
				IterSwap(l + 1, middle);            // move median pivot to l + 1
				I ii = l + 1;
				for(I i = l + 2; i != h - 1; ++i)   // do partitioning; already l <= pivot <= h - 1
					if(less(*i, *(l + 1)))
						IterSwap(++ii, i);
				IterSwap(ii, l + 1);                // put pivot back in between partitions
				I iih = ii;
				while(iih + 1 != h && !less(*ii, *(iih + 1))) // Find middle range of elements equal to pivot
					++iih;
				if(pass > 5 || min(ii - l, h - iih) > (max(ii - l, h - iih) >> pass)) { // partition sizes ok or we have done max attempts
					if(ii - l < h - iih - 1) {       // recurse on smaller partition, tail on larger
						if(ii - l < PARALLEL_THRESHOLD)
							CoSort(l, ii, less);
						else
							cw & [=] { CoSort(l, ii, less); };
						l = iih + 1;
					}
					else {
						if(h - iih - 1 < PARALLEL_THRESHOLD)
							CoSort(iih + 1, h, less);
						else
							cw & [=] { CoSort(iih + 1, h, less); };
						h = ii;
					}
					break;
				}
				IterSwap(l, l + (int)Random(count));     // try some other random elements for median pivot
				IterSwap(middle, l + (int)Random(count));
				IterSwap(h - 1, l + (int)Random(count));
				pass++;
			}
		}
	}
};

template <class I, class Less>
void CoSort(I l, I h, const Less& less)
{
	CoSorter().CoSort(l, h, less);
}

template <class T, class Less>
void CoSort(T& c, const Less& less)
{
	CoSort(c.Begin(), c.End(), less);
}

template <class T>
void CoSort(T& c)
{
	typedef typename T::ValueType VT;
	CoSort(c.Begin(), c.End(), StdLess<VT>());
}

#ifdef _DEBUG
#define N 1000000
#else
#define N 10000000
#endif

CONSOLE_APP_MAIN
{
	Vector<String> a, b;
	for(int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
		String s = AsString(Random());
		a.Add(s);
		b.Add(s);
	}

	{
		RTIMING("Sort");
		Sort(a);
	}
	{
		RTIMING("CoSort");
		CoSort(b);
	}

	ASSERT(a == b);
}


Quite simple to do this with CoWork, is not it? Smile

Now for benchmark numbers (Core i7):

TIMING CoSort         : 499.00 ms - 499.00 ms (499.00 ms / 1 ), min: 499.00 ms, max: 499.00 ms, nesting: 1 - 1
TIMING Sort           :  2.15 s  -  2.15 s  ( 2.15 s  / 1 ), min:  2.15 s , max:  2.15 s , nesting: 1 - 1


Ratio is 4.3, which is better than number of physical cores. Hard to say if one should expect more from hyperthreading (virtual cores), but I would say it is OK result.

My only concern is actually about naming.

Is using "Co" as prefix for all things multithreaded a good idea?

Mirek
 
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