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7th July 2008 - Link Blog

3 and 1/2 minutes to sort a Terabyte, and a look at Hadoop's code structure. Bill de hÓra uses some clever static analysis tools to explore Hadoop’s 100,000+ lines of code.

Posted 7th July 2008 at 2:15 pm

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