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| From: | James Youngman |
| Subject: | Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:34:40 +0000 |
On 1/16/07, Dan Hipschman <address@hidden> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:20:16PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > I tried it and did some timings. > Bottom line: with a 4+GB file, dual-processor, I see a 19% speed-up, > but I think most of the savings is in reduced I/O. Thanks very much for doing this. The performance gain is good news indeed.
How does this compare with using 'cat' as the compressor? James.
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