From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 00:54:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B986106566B for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:54:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from code@apotheon.net) Received: from oproxy5-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy5.bluehost.com [IPv6:2605:dc00:100:2::a5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 338CB8FC0C for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:54:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 2073 invoked by uid 0); 15 Mar 2012 00:54:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 2012 00:54:54 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=apotheon.net; s=default; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=OtQap7E5h7vPaxA32o8ycSB9A65gOvpB+YD2q9jjxvQ=; b=vXjolF/wUeRPo/gKla3GKN9XqBFiDDamCrDOyykz22NBQ3osCJ9T/oPFgpJrJQSaDq+IDd9jTJuUWXVWfIULxm+ThCO/ISijHYYKmULXnwWhCWdSSbs1mAwyY5PeCJUB; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=localhost) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1S7yxy-00069o-3I for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:54:54 -0600 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:54:50 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120315005450.GB20239@hemlock.hydra> References: <4F60C059.7060904@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F60C059.7060904@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.net} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with code@apotheon.net} Subject: Re: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:54:55 -0000 On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 04:59:21PM +0100, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > > some time ago I started writing a BSDL sort variant from scratch > since the OpenBSD version did not support multibyte locales and was > hard to modify. The development was a bit stalled but recently, Oleg > Moskalenko showed interest in > continuing this version and he has made a very good job on this BSD > sort variant. Now it is compatible with the base version of GNU sort > but the performance in most cases (string sort and -n) is quite > behind GNU sort (although with -g it is about *4 times* faster). > Oleg is still working on optimizing the code and the long-term plan > is to drop GNU sort once this variant is good enough to replace it. > For now, it is only available in Ports Collection as > textproc/bsdsort but if there is no objection or any serious bug > report I plan to add it to base installed as bsdsort, being GNU sort > still the default sort until it proves that we can safely drop GNU > sort. If you are interested in this sort utility, could you please > try the port and report us any issue that you experience? I meant to send this email yesterday. It's on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/CopyfreeNews/status/179985533911576576 I'll be testing the bsdsort for my own purposes, and report back if I have any problems. Thanks for the hard work! -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]