>> Paul Eggert writes:
>>>
>>> This patch is by Glen Lenker, Matt Pham, Benjamin Nuernberger, Sky
>>> Lin, TaeSung Roh, and Paul Eggert. It adds support for parallelism
>>> within an internal sort. On our simple tests on a 2-core desktop x86,
>>> overall performance improved by roughly a factor of 1.6.
In my local branch with this change, I'm about to merge this
into the primary change set.
>From 2f4edf2e997e3354ca8179b181b1f95037834473 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 07:39:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] remove obsolete comment
---
src/sort.c | 7 ++-----
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index b4f0dfb..b6e0ee8 100644
--- a/src/sort.c
+++ b/src/sort.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* sort - sort lines of text (with all kinds of options).
- Copyright (C) 1988, 1991-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1988, 1991-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -2538,10 +2538,7 @@ sortlines_thread (void *data)
singlethreaded, use the optimization suggested by Knuth exercise
5.2.4-10, which requires room for only 1.5*N lines, rather than the
usual 2*N lines. Knuth writes that this memory optimization was
- originally published by D. A. Bell, Comp J. 1 (1958), 75.
-
- This function is inline so that its tests for multthreadedness and
- inplacedness can be optimized away in common cases. */
+ originally published by D. A. Bell, Comp J. 1 (1958), 75. */
static void
sortlines (struct line *restrict lines, size_t nlines,
--
1.6.2.rc1.285.gc5f54
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