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Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort
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Dan Hipschman |
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Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort |
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Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:45:00 -0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:35:52AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> At this point to my mind the only question is how to put this change
> in, and whether to make it the default (with gzip, say). Clearly it
> can lead to a big performance improvement with large sorts on modern
> machines.
I think it should be triggered with an environment variable, say
GNUSORT_COMPRESS=gzip (or whatever). That way, it's got the convenience
of a default option, but it's easily configurable. Setting the variable
to the empty string (or perhaps just not setting the variable) could
disable the behaviour.
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, (continued)
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/24
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Eric Blake, 2007/01/24
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Paul Eggert, 2007/01/24
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Craig Macdonald, 2007/01/25
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/25
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Dan Hipschman, 2007/01/24
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/25
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/16
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Paul Eggert, 2007/01/16
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Bauke Jan Douma, 2007/01/16
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort,
Dan Hipschman <=
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/18
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Philip Rowlands, 2007/01/18
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/18
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Philip Rowlands, 2007/01/18
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Dan Hipschman, 2007/01/16
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, James Youngman, 2007/01/16
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/18
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/18
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Dan Hipschman, 2007/01/18
- Re: feature request: gzip/bzip support for sort, Dan Hipschman, 2007/01/18