Performance engineering case study: Heap construction
Authors:Jesper Bojesen, Jyrki Katajainen, and Maz Spork
Published in:Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Algorithm Engineering, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1668, Springer-Verlag (1999), 301–315
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DOI:10.1007/3-540-48318-7_24
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Abstract:The behaviour of three methods for constructing a binary heap is studied. The methods considered are the original one proposed by Williams [1964], in which elements are repeatedly inserted into a single heap; the improvement by Floyd [1964], in which small heaps are repeatedly merged to bigger heaps; and a recent method proposed, e. g., by Fadel et al. [1999] in which a heap is built layerwise. Both the worst-case number of instructions and that of cache misses are analysed. It is well-known that Floyd’s method has the best instruction count. Let N denote the size of the heap to be constructed, B the number of elements that fit into a cache line, and let c and d be some positive constants. Our analysis shows that, under reasonable assumptions, repeated insertion and layerwise construction both incur at most c N/B cache misses, whereas repeated merging, as programmed by Floyd, can incur more than (d N log2 B)/B cache misses. However, for a memory-tuned version of repeated merging the number of cache misses incurred is close to the optimal bound N/B.
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BibLATEX:
@inproceedings{BKS1999aC,
  author = {Jesper Bojesen and Jyrki Katajainen and Maz Spork},
  title = {Performance engineering case study: {H}eap construction},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Algorithm
    Engineering},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume = {1668},
  publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
  year = {1999},
  pages = {301--315},
}
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