On 27/09/10 14:07, Jim Meyering wrote: > 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.
tr this evening multi-core sort testing probably wednesday evening join multibyte tweaks friday sort multibyte alignment with join (not sure) split --number another couple of days. I'll have more info in a few days. cheers, Pádraig.
