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BTW, these are 100 byte records, so 1TB = 10 billion records. I don't know why they measure in bytes, which is nearly meaningless. I can sort a single 1TB reco
by extension 16y ago
BTW, these are 100 byte records, so 1TB = 10 billion records.
I don't know why they measure in bytes, which is nearly meaningless. I can sort a single 1TB record in my head right now. There, I'm done.
- adataminer 16y agothe size is given because one can understand how many machines it would take to hold the data in the memory, how much bandwidth is required to move data around and latency. Its hard to understand if you are just a programmer, a computer science graduate can easily identify with size in bytes since they represent accurate amount rather than vague billion entries. In later case you need to specify two variables size of entry and number of entries. the larger entries become the easier is to sort them, if they get smaller then you can have an O(n) sorting ability. The 100 byte records is fixed in literature and well understood by practitioners, what you are experiencing is your naivete.