Is anyone aware of any sorting algorithms that use SSE. Not parallel sorting algorithms like Intel's TBB, but single threaded sorts that leverage the SSE functionality for comparison, swapping, etc.
I could not find any single thread sorting algorithm for you but I have found a multi-threaded one. Here is the link to the paper:
Efficient Implementation of Sorting on Multi-Core CPU Architecture.pdf (364.6k)Here is the abstract of the paper:
Sorting a list of input numbers is one of the most fundamen-
tal problems in the field of computer science in general and
high-throughput database applications in particular. Al-
though literature is abound with various flavors of sorting
algorithms, different architectures call for customized im-
plementations to achieve high efficiency and faster sorting
times.
This paper presents an efficient implementation and de-
tailed analysis ofMergeSort on current CPU architectures.
Additionally, the paper demonstrates performance scalabil-
ity of proposed sorting algorithm with respect to certain
salient architectural features of modern chip multiproces-
sor (CMP) architectures, including SIMD width and core-
count. Measured performance of our algorithm on Intel Pen-
ryn quad-core processor system compares favorably with all
previously published results. Furthermore, based on our
cycle-level simulation of various hypothetical architectural
configurations, we demonstrate near-linear scalability of our
implementation with SIMD width scaling up to eight times
wider than current SSE width of 128-bits, and CMP core-
count scaling up to 32 cores.
Could you share why you only need a single thread sorting algorithm?
-Thai
