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Every
time we want to get another node,
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we
have to access the external file and read in the
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appropriate
information.
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It
takes far less time to operate on a particular
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node
(i.e., doing comparisons) once it has been
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read
in.
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This
means that for externally stored tables we
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should
try to reduce the height of the tree...even if
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it
means doing more comparisons at every node.
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