Talk:External sort: Difference between revisions

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But a worse problem, for this site, is that it's not likely that approaches to this task will be very comparable across languages. And that's because this task seems to be more about the operating system and hardware than it is about the language. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 04:24, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 
:I did once sort a list of a billion 64-bit integers by sorting the chunks and then merge-sort/combining the chunks. I would agree its a pretty rare situation and it is probably a poor fit for this site's format. --[[User:TimSC|TimSC]] ([[User talk:TimSC|talk]]) 05:06, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
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