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External sorting is just a term to mean a sort algorithm that can sort a large load of data without requiring it to all be loaded into memory at the same time.

The simplest example is the external merge sort. You just divide the data into equal sized blocks that you can handle. Sort each block and write it back to disk. Then load the first few values of each block into input buffers, and merge them into an output buffer. When the output buffer fills, write it to disk and clear it. If an input buffer empties, load some extra values from it's associated block.

This wikipedia article has a step by step process, and a few useful links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_sort[^]

Before you consider this though, make sure you really need it. If you are sorting hundreds and hundreds of megabytes of data, then yes you need to do something like this. How big is the data file you are sorting? If it can sensibly be held in ram in one go, then you probably don't need to do external sorting.

Simon

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