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CLASIFICACION EXTERNA [2 records]

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Record 1 2024-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A sort that requires the use of auxiliary storage because the set of items to be sorted cannot all be held in the available internal storage at one time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Méthode de classification qui utilise temporairement des dispositifs externes, comme des disques ou des bandes.

OBS

tri externe : désignation et définition extraites du CAPITAL Business Dictionary et reproduites avec l'autorisation de LID Editorial Empresarial.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Programas y programación (Informática)
  • Inteligencia artificial
DEF

Método de ordenación que usa temporalmente dispositivos externos como discos o cintas.

OBS

clasificación externa : designación y definición extraídas del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 2 2002-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Computer Memories
DEF

A merge sort, which is an external sort, such that the sorted subsets created by the internal sorts are unequally distributed among some of the available auxiliary storage devices.

OBS

The subsets are merged onto the remaining auxiliary storage devices and the process repeated until all items are in one sorted set.

OBS

As opposed to balanced merge sort.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
  • Memorias (Computadoras)
DEF

Clasificación y fusión, que es una clasificación externa, de modo que los subconjuntos creados por la clasificación interna se distribuyen desigualmente entre los dispositivos de almacenamiento auxiliares disponibles. Los subconjuntos se fusionan en los dispositivos de almacenamiento auxiliar remanentes y se repite el proceso hasta que todos los elementos estén clasificados en un solo conjunto.

OBS

Contrasta con "clasificación de fusión equilibrada" (balanced merge sort).

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