On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:35:52AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > At this point to my mind the only question is how to put this change > in, and whether to make it the default (with gzip, say). Clearly it > can lead to a big performance improvement with large sorts on modern > machines.
I think it should be triggered with an environment variable, say GNUSORT_COMPRESS=gzip (or whatever). That way, it's got the convenience of a default option, but it's easily configurable. Setting the variable to the empty string (or perhaps just not setting the variable) could disable the behaviour. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
