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I love how merge-sort which was once used on punch cards because RAM was tight is still relevant. :)
by actionfromafar 3y ago
I love how merge-sort which was once used on punch cards because RAM was tight is still relevant. :)
- lanstin 3y agoKnuth's section on sorting data on tape drives is surprisingly relevant to big data running over S3 buckets and streaming into compute.
- ThomasBHickey 3y agoI can remember the days! I suppose as problems grow in size, it's not too surprising that older methods of coping with what seemed like lots of data are still applicable.