CS 14 - Sorting Comparisons

20 points, No Target Date

Your assignment is to perform some experimental testing on a set of programs provided to you to determine the Big-O running time of the programs. You will need to write a report describing your experimental methods and your final conclusions. You may earn up to 20% extra credit for turning in your report in LaTeX.

Downloads

Here are the executables (compiled under Linux, and known to work on hill.cs.ucr.edu): Download the executables and set the execute bit for them:
	chmod +x sort1 sort2 sort3 sort4 sort5

Hints

The time(1) utility under Linux may be useful. You may also want to investigate gnuplot.