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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bruce C. Giamei, Lagrangeville, NY (US);
Martin Recktenwald, Schoenaich, DE;
Donald W. Schmidt, Stone Ridge, NY (US);
Timothy Slegel, Staatsburg, NY (US);
Aditya N. Puranik, Pune, IN;
Mark S. Farrell, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
Christian Jacobi, West Park, NY (US);
Jonathan D. Bradbury, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Christian Zoellin, Austin, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
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.