Merge Sort - OS2 Course Project

Build the documentation

1. In the root directory of the project, run the following command: make doc
2. Open the doc.html explaining the project

Main commands

• compile the project: make
• display project help: ./bin/project -h
• run tests using a the exectimes bash script (argument 1 is the project version and argument 2 is the number of splits): ./exectimes.sh

Other helpful commands

• generate a file with 5000 numbers (lines) ./bin/project -m generation -o /tmp/test.txt -n 5000
• sort a file using a specific project version, k being the number of splits ./bin/project -m projectV0 -i /tmp/test.txt -o /tmp/test.sort.txt -k 5
• get the execution time of a command: /usr/bin/time -v [command]

Tests

All tests are done under an Ubuntu WSL on a Windows 10 machine with an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz, 16.0 GB of RAM and a Nvidia GTX 1070 GPU. Sources Files are compiled using version 9.3.0 of gcc.