Tom,

> fewer passes when T is large.  Do you want to try that?

Two passes is the state-of-the-practice on external disk sorts.

If we¹re looking to replace the tape sort approach, I would hope for a two
pass approach, with the merge pass avoided in the case of unidirectional
access.

- Luke



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