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EXTERNAL SORT

(C) GOYANI MAHESH

TERMINOLOGY

Internal sorting is too much faster then external sorting Internal sorting is performed on the data which are in main memory, means main memory is enough to store the data to be sorted. It is applied to sort elements which are too large to fit in the main memory. That is any sort algorithm that uses external memory, such as tape or disk, during sort is called external sort. The main concern with external sort is to minimize external disk access since reading a disk block takes million times longer than accessing an item in RAM. The involvement of external storage device makes sorting algorithm very complex because of these two reason: (1). The cost of accessing an item is much higher than any computational cost (2). Different procedures and methods have to be implemented and executed for different external storage device.

(C) GOYANI MAHESH

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