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Reading a Set of Disk Pages

Summary: Reading a set of disk pages reduces to a shortest-path problem on a graph; nearby pages can be read together, even with gaps. A simple approximation is near-optimal; it derives the expected cost and shows buffering with large reads yields speedups. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8159
Venue
VLDB
Year
1993
Pagerank
5.1479217e-05
Overall Rank
6,215 | 56.81%
DOI
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