> You can't even compare Syncsort and the native Unix ( or Win > or whatever. ) sorts to it. It's in class of it's own. Sorting
Be cautious in what you assume. I don't know how good syncsort is but the GNU fileutils sort shipped with Linux is considerably faster than the primitive sort program from the old AT&T/BSD unix world. What sort of size data sets and times are we talking about, and I can go run some benches
