Performance / Price Sort

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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. 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 documents this and proposes that the PennySort benchmark be revised to Performance/Price sort: a simple GB/$ sort metric based on a two-pass external sort.
Original word file at: http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/PennySort.doc

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Databases, Performance, D.5;H.2

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/32959

Consulte el texto completo en el siguiente enlace:

https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/9809004
 http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/9809004

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