Re: Parallel quicksort

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 15 May 2010 19:26:15 -0400
Message-ID:
<4bef2d97$0$286$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
On 15-05-2010 11:35, Jon Harrop wrote:

I cannot find an implementation of parallel quicksort in Java. Does
anyone have one or know where I can get one?


    public static void tqsint(int[] ia, int tdepth) {
       tqsint_help(0, ia.length - 1, ia, 0, tdepth);
       return;
    }
    public static void tqsint_help(int n1, int n2, int[] ia, int depth,
int tdepth) {
       int tmp;
       int l = n1;
       int r = n2;
       int pivot = ia[(n1 + n2) / 2];
       do {
          while (ia[l] < pivot)
             l++;
          while (ia[r] > pivot)
             r--;
          if (l <= r) {
             tmp = ia[l];
             ia[l] = ia[r];
             ia[r] = tmp;
             l++;
             r--;
          }
       } while (l <= r);
       if (depth >= tdepth) {
          if (n1 < r)
             tqsint_help(n1, r, ia, depth + 1, tdepth);
          if (l < n2)
             tqsint_help(l, n2, ia, depth + 1, tdepth);
       } else {
          ThreadSortHelp h1 = new ThreadSortHelp(n1, r, ia, depth + 1,
tdepth);
          ThreadSortHelp h2 = new ThreadSortHelp(l, n2, ia, depth + 1,
tdepth);
          h1.start();
          h2.start();
          try {
             h1.join();
             h2.join();
          } catch (InterruptedException e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
          }
       }
       return;
    }

....

class ThreadSortHelp extends Thread {
    private int n1;
    private int n2;
    private int[] ia;
    private int depth;
    private int tdepth;
    public ThreadSortHelp(int n1, int n2, int[] ia, int depth, int tdepth) {
       super();
       this.n1 = n1;
       this.n2 = n2;
       this.ia = ia;
       this.depth = depth;
       this.tdepth = tdepth;
    }
    public void run() {
       ThreadSort.tqsint_help(n1, n2, ia, depth, tdepth);
    }
}

Arne

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