Morgan Stanley Interview Question for Senior Software Development Engineers


Country: India
Interview Type: In-Person




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External Merge Sort

- Atharva Tripathi August 07, 2020 | Flag Reply
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one can use Scanner API from java.util package which doesn't keep references to line read from the file, as such the memory footprint of reading huge files through this API is very less as compared to conventional file reading API's as bufferedReader, etc

- Amit Gupta June 19, 2017 | Flag Reply
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One can use API's like Scanner from the java.util package. This API doesn't keeps references to data one is has been read from the file and as such its memory footprint compared to conventional file reading API's like BufferedReader is very less. Good for reading huge files as such.

- Amit Gupta June 19, 2017 | Flag Reply
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External Sorting
Let's assume 512GB is the maximum available for sorting at any moment.
1. Read 512GB from 5TB of input.
2. Sort it.
3. Save it to a 512GB block in hard disk.
4. Repeat steps 1 -> 4, 9 times until all 5TB is sorted, so we have 10 blocks of sorted data.
5. Perform Poly-phase mergesort, upon these 10 blocks, such that at any time max kept in RAM is 512 GB.

- Ajith August 12, 2019 | Flag Reply


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