@ above can u plz specify how to sort a 1 Tb file with 64 bytes of Ram. I
got this heap method....but ur approach seems interesting ......if u can
give some links dat wud be very appreciated..

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Douglas Diniz <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you have a memory that has less than 1 million integers, you have
> to sort through co-sequential process (File Structures in C++, Folk),
> that use heapsort too, and list the first 1 million integers from the
> sorted file.
> With this method you can have only 64bytes of Ram (or less, depending
> of your file register size) to sort a 1Tb file.
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Form the first million numbers into a max-heap, where the largest
> > number at the root. Any number in the input file that is larger than
> > the root can be ignored. If it is smaller than the root, replace the
> > root with the number and trickle it down the heap to restore the heap
> > condition. Worst case is if the file is in descending order, in which
> > case, there are about 2 * 0.999999 trillion * log_2(1 million) data
> > comparisons.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On Jun 23, 7:18 am, amit <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Given a set of 1 Trillion integers on hard disk, find the smallest 1
> >> million of them. You can fit at most 1 million integers in memory at a
> >> time. State the fastest solution you can think of.
> >
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