Sort and merge instruction for a general-purpose processor

A Sort Lists instruction is provided to perform a sort and/or a merge operation. The instruction is an architected machine instruction of an instruction set architecture and is executed by a general-purpose processor of the computing environment. The executing includes sorting a plurality of input l...

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Hauptverfasser: Martin Recktenwald, Christian Jacobi, Jonathan D. Bradbury, Timothy Slegel, Christian Zoellin, Bruce C. Giamei, Mark S. Farrell, Aditya N. Puranik, Donald W. Schmidt
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Zusammenfassung:A Sort Lists instruction is provided to perform a sort and/or a merge operation. The instruction is an architected machine instruction of an instruction set architecture and is executed by a general-purpose processor of the computing environment. The executing includes sorting a plurality of input lists to obtain one or more sorted output lists, which are output.