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    <p>"My first question is, are parallelized versions of sorting algorithms useful in the real world" - depends on the size of the data set that you are working on in the real work. For small sets of data the answer is no. For larger data sets it depends not only on the size of the data set but also the specific architecture of the system.</p> <p>One of the limiting factors that will prevent the expected increase in performance is the cache layout of the system. If the data can fit in the L1 cache of a core, then there is little to gain by sorting across multiple cores as you incur the penalty of the L1 cache miss between each iteration of the sorting algorithm.</p> <p>The same reasoning applies to chips that have multiple L2 caches and NUMA (non-uniform memory access) architectures. So the more cores that you want to distribute the sorting across, the smallestToParallelize constant will need to be increased accordingly.</p> <p>Another limiting factor which you identified is shared memory access, or contention over the memory bus. Since the memory bus can only satisfy a certain number of memory accesses per second; having additional cores that do essentially nothing but read and write to main memory will put a lot of stress on the memory system.</p> <p>The last factor that I should point out is the thread pool itself as it may not be as efficient as you think. Because you have threads that steal and generate work from a shared queue, that queue requires synchronization methods; and depending on how those are implemented, they can cause very long serial sections in your code.</p>
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