Speeding up External Mergesort.

@article{DBLP:journals/tkde/ZhengL96,
  author    = {LuoQuan Zheng and
               Per-{\AA}ke Larson},
  title     = {Speeding up External Mergesort},
  journal   = {IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.},
  volume    = {8},
  number    = {2},
  year      = {1996},
  pages     = {322-332},
  ee        = {db/journals/tkde/ZhengL96.html, db/journals/tkde/ZhengL96.html},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

Copyright © 1996 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). Abstract used with permission.

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