Re: How to sort very large arrays?

2008-06-14 Thread rent
On Jun 14, 1:54 am, kj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm downloading some very large tables from a remote site. I want to sort these tables in a particular way before saving them to disk. In the past I found that the most efficient way to do this was to piggy-back on Unix's highly optimized sort

Re: How to sort very large arrays?

2008-06-14 Thread rent
On Jun 14, 1:54 am, kj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm downloading some very large tables from a remote site. I want to sort these tables in a particular way before saving them to disk. In the past I found that the most efficient way to do this was to piggy-back on Unix's highly optimized sort

How to sort very large arrays?

2008-06-13 Thread kj
I'm downloading some very large tables from a remote site. I want to sort these tables in a particular way before saving them to disk. In the past I found that the most efficient way to do this was to piggy-back on Unix's highly optimized sort command. So, from within a Perl script, I'd

Re: How to sort very large arrays?

2008-06-13 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:54:32 +, kj wrote: I'm downloading some very large tables from a remote site. I want to sort these tables in a particular way before saving them to disk. In the past I found that the most efficient way to do this was to piggy-back on Unix's highly optimized sort

Re: How to sort very large arrays?

2008-06-13 Thread Terry Reedy
kj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | I'm downloading some very large tables from a remote site. I want | to sort these tables in a particular way before saving them to | disk. In the past I found that the most efficient way to do this | was to piggy-back on Unix's