merging routine

merging routine

[′mərj·iŋ rü‚tēn]
(computer science)
A program that creates a single sequence of items, ordered according to some rule, out of two or more sequences of items, each sequence ordered according to the same rule.
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The leaf-list merging routine does not seem amenable to an I/O-solution.
On the Sorting-Complexity of Suffix Tree Construction
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