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Large Object Heap Uncovered

(Maoni Stephens) The CLR garbage collector (GC) divides objects into small and large categories. When an object is large, some attributes associated with it become more significant than if the object is small. For instance, compacting itcopying the memory elsewhere on the heapis expensive. In this m

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The Test Harness

(Jim Mischel) For demonstration purposes, were going to build an array of numbers and sort them using this merge sort technique. Well read the array in chunks, sort the individual chunks, and then merge the chunks together after weve exhausted the input array. This will allow us to refine our algori