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Subject: Re: sorting large numbers of large records
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"Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com> wrote in message
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> You could also map the entire file, to view it as one large array.

Doing so would be very slow compared to the algorithms Vinzent Hoefler
referenced.