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- From: bba@donuts3 (Binayak Banerjee)
- Subject: Re: Sorting in Virtual Memory
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 07:36:23 GMT
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- frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de () writes:
- : I'm writing a program which needs to sort a large array
- : parts of which are swapped in and out of memory (my own
- : implementation of a sort of VM).
- :
- [ Request for algorithm deleted ].
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- Check out Knuth Vol ? (Sorting and Searching). Turn to the section on
- external sorts. This was very common in the days when core referred to
- ferrite donuts threaded on wires. Lots of algorithms.
-
- -- Binayak
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