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Re:History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google by cshimmin on Thursday February 18, 2016 @06:50PM (#11130394)
That just their I/O bandwidth. There is computing overhead in actually doing the sort. Also google was using redundant persistence.
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Re:History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google by tyre on Thursday February 18, 2016 @07:32PM (#11130588)
To add to this, Google's results were in 2012.
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