Performance / Price Sort
<|reference_start|>Performance / Price Sort: NTsort is an external sort on WindowsNT 5.0. It has minimal functionality but excellent price performance. In particular, running on mail-order hardware it can sort 1.5 GB for a penny. For commercially available sorts, Postman Sort from Robert Ramey Software Development has elapsed time performance comparable to NTsort, while using less processor time. It can sort 1.27 GB for a penny (12.7 million records.) These sorts set new price-performance records. This paper documents this and proposes that the PennySort benchmark be revised to Performance/Price sort: a simple GB/$ sort metric based on a two-pass external sort.<|reference_end|>
@article{gray1998performance,
    title={Performance / Price Sort},
    author={Jim Gray, Joshua Coates, Chris Nyberg},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/9809004},
    year={1998},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/9809004},
    primaryClass={cs.DB cs.PF}
}