12 Feb
2003
12 Feb
'03
2:12 p.m.
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
>> I don't know anything which can't be
done in a megabyte of mem.
> How about a database record sort on a field with a
data length greater
> than 1MB?
HF> read the fields to compare in chunks of max say 64K (well in reality i'd
HF> use the block/cluster size of the drive) and compare it.
Read from where? What drive? You assume too much.
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Jeffrey Sharp