At 12:48 PM 4/6/2009, Paul Koning wrote:
Some of this stuff still makes sense. You still
need external sort to
sort really large data files, and algorithms that access the external
files sequentially are still winners even with disk files.
As routine files are measured in gigabytes or larger, hard drives
seem more like tape drives. It takes a while to move things.
Hmm, something along the lines of: "the computer will always be just about
fast enough for the task at hand"?