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Re: How long will this take?



Jude DaShiell (12020-06-09):
> To search disk drives.

Are you still talking about binary search? To search disk drives for
what? Binary search is for sorted data. There is nothing sorted on a
hard drive. And binary search is when random access is fast; on
mechanical hard drives, random access is much slower than sequential
access.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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