Sorry about that. The file has 36,000,000 records. Regards, --V
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:24:15 +0530, Vishal Vasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I am trying to sort a file with records. I have tried to slurp all the > records present in the file to memory but the memory has run out. > > Now I am doing it in shell script itself and it takes around 2 hours > for the file. I have around 10 files more to go. Could somebody help > me as to how to sort the file in some efficient way to sort the file? > I am trying to implement mergesort and found that by default perl v5.8 > uses merge sort hoping that it would be faster. > > Regards, > Vishal. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
