Real-Time Performance of Sorting Algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Peter P. Puschner

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Technische Informatik, Technische Universität Wien, A-1040 Wien, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Real-Time Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

In hard real-time systemstasks must meet their deadlines under guarantee. Soft real-timetasks may miss deadlines occasionally, as long as the entiresystem can provide the specified quality of service.In this paper we investigate the hard and soft real-time performanceof sorting algorithms and compare it to their average performance.We show in which way the adequacy of an algorithm depends onthe demanded performance criterium (hard, soft, or non real-time).The results provide a guideline to select the right sorting algorithmfor a given application.