Efficient File I/O, Part 4: In-Place External Sorting
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If you’ve been following all the posts in this series, you’ll know that by know I have a pretty good way to read in edges for ExoLabel due primarily to faster I/O and an optimized external sorting function (if you haven’t, check out the first post here!). I left off in my last post by mentioning that I wanted to change my external sort to work in-place, but I didn’t really explain why.