A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

If it uses recursion to do the inserts, you'd probably gain quite a bit using a non-recursive sorting algorithm. Memory allocation might also be a big factor if you're reading in the entire file into ...

Novel “Manycore” architectures, such as graphics processors, are high-parallel and high-performance shared-memory architectures born to solve specific problems such as the graphical ones. Those ...