Re: [boost] [sorting] External Sorting

From: Sam Schetterer (samthecppman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-31 12:46:17

On 3/31/07, Martin Wille <mw8329_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Sam Schetterer wrote:
> > Would there be any interest sorting functions that sort data that is
> > written to disk?
>
> Yes, as I wrote before, this would probably be more useful than having
> more kinds of in-memory sorting implementations.
>
>
>               I know that it sounds somewhat useless, but if the data on
> > disk takes up 10gb, I know that no computer can load all of that data at
> > once, even with virtual memory.
>
> What? Of course there are computers that can do that, even PCs, even
> without virtual memory. (I see that your statement doesn't affect the
> interest in such a sorting facility. However, statements like this one
> make your other statements look questionable.)
>
>
>
> Regards,
> m
>
There is a small typo on line 42 of external_base.hpp. It says
count[y] != count[y + 1], but it should say count[y] != nums[y + 1].
Sorry.