Overview: Algorithm selection is an engineering decision: the wrong choice can freeze a system at scale, regardless of ...

Abstract: This paper describes a new parallel sorting algorithm, derived from the odd-even mergesort algorithm, named "partition and concurrent merging" (PCM). The proposed algorithm is based on a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Some algorithms are more efficient than others. We would prefer to chose an efficient algorithm, so it would be nice to have metrics for comparing algorithm efficiency. The complexity of an algorithm ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Abstract: Merge sort is a fundamental algorithm in the domain of data sorting and is widely used in various applications. Hardware implementations of FPGA often face challenges associated with high ...

This document explains and verifies the design goals for an efficient, generic and robust stable sort implementation called driftsort by Orson Peters and Lukas Bergdoll (source code). TL;DR: driftsort ...

Are you frustrated at losing your carefully curated Spotify playlists when switching to Apple Music? Not anymore. Apple has introduced its Transfer Music from Other Music Services tool to new ...

Edit distance—a classical problem in computer science—has received ongoing attention from both practitioners and theoreticians. Given two strings A and B, the edit distance is the minimum number of ...