On 9 Dec 2009, at 12:19, Roger Burton West wrote: [...]
Now GNU sort has grown a -R option which does basically the same thing.GNU sort is in C, so that might be faster, right?
You know, I wish I hadn't looked at the source now. It seems to mainly involve using a "random" comparison function which compares (modified?) MD5 sums of the values to compare.
For extra software hate, locales puts its oar in, to produce a factor of ten slowdown even when dealing with purely US-ASCII text.
