Corpus ID: 15813751

Performance / Price Sort and PennySort

@inproceedings{Gray1998PerformanceP,
  title={Performance / Price Sort and PennySort},
  author={J. Gray and J. Coates and C. Nyberg},
  year={1998}
}

J. Gray, J. Coates, C. Nyberg

Published 1998

Computer Science

NTsort is an external sort on WindowsNT 5.0. It has minimal functionality but excellent price performance. In particular, running on mail-order hardware it can sort 1.5 GB for a penny. NT5.0 is not yet available. For commercially available sorts, Postman Sort from Robert Ramey Software Development has elapsed time performance comparable to NTsort, while using less processor time. It can sort 1.27 GB for a penny (12.7 million records.) These sorts set new price-performance records. This paper… CONTINUE READING

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