Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 26/09/10 20:29, Jim Meyering wrote: >> It's been 5 months since coreutils-8.5, and the list of NEWS >> entries is long enough that I think we'd do well to make a release. >> I've included those entries below. >> >> Other than the imminent fix for tr's assert-on-invalid-inputs bug, >> is there anything people would like to see included? > > I'd also like to test out mutexes vs spinlocks in multicore sort. > > I'd also like to test if it's appropriate to limit the > default max number of processors used in multicore sort > to something like 8.
Waiting a week or two would be fine. Does that sound reasonable? > I was hoping to get multibyte support for join in > (which is pretty much complete now), but given > the requirement that `sort` order matches up with > that of `join`, we'll have to do both in unison I think. I'd prefer to defer those changes, too. > There is also the split --number enhancement which > is mostly done except for some docs and refactoring, > but we might push that out till next time, time depending. Either way would be fine with me. It's a new feature, so even if the code is immature, it won't cause much harm.
