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    Batcher's oddeven mergesort is a generic construction devised by Ken Batcher for sorting networks of size O(n (log n)2) and depth O((log n)2), where...
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    alternating between oddeven and evenodd on each step. A related but more efficient sort algorithm is the Batcher oddeven mergesort, using compare–exchange...
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    0) AND (arr[i] < arr[l]) ) swap the elements arr[i] and arr[l] Batcher oddeven mergesort Pairwise sorting network Bitonic sorting network for n not a power...
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  • computers." Batcher is credited with discovering two important parallel sorting algorithms: the odd-even mergesort and the bitonic mergesort. Batcher is known...
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    network is very similar to the Batcher odd-even mergesort, but differs in the structure of operations. While Batcher repeatedly divides, sorts and merges...
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    networks of depth O(log2 n) (hence size O(n log2 n)) such as Batcher oddeven mergesort, bitonic sort, Shell sort, and the Pairwise sorting network. These...
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  • von Neumann in 1945. A detailed description and analysis of bottom-up mergesort appeared in a report by Goldstine and von Neumann as early as 1948. method...
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