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Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort

From: Dan Hipschman
Subject: Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:14:30 -0800
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:20:16PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I tried it and did some timings.
> Bottom line: with a 4+GB file, dual-processor, I see a 19% speed-up,
> but I think most of the savings is in reduced I/O.

Thanks very much for doing this.  The performance gain is good news
indeed.
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