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: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 it's 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)
:: There are many times where it may not be a good idea to let the ''sort'' process use all available real storage, especially when there may be many other critical programs running; and letting the ''sort'' thrash real storage (in a paging sense) would be detrimental to the system (and all other running programs) as a whole. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 06:02, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
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