From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 2 5: 8:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED5737B417 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 05:08:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB2D85161095; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 16:08:05 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 16:08:04 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Mark Murray Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD sort vs GNU sort. Message-ID: <20011202130804.GA61024@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20011202124701.GA60816@nagual.pp.ru> <200112021300.fB2D06036554@grimreaper.grondar.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200112021300.fB2D06036554@grimreaper.grondar.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 13:00:06 +0000, Mark Murray wrote: > > It is still possible to add one byte collation support to BSD sort, also > > it will be harder than adding it to GNU sort, because whole collation > > table must be builded first, before runtime comparison. > > So, can you do it? > > And if so, _will_ you do it? :-) Yes, but it may takes some amount of time, it will be not easy patch as for GNU sort. BTW, what exactly is urgent in sort replacement idea? As I see by first look, BSD sort as designed will be somewhat faster, but needs lots of temporary files comparing to GNU sort. The next thing we need to check _before_ switch efforts is its POSIX conformance. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message