Re: sort 5.2.1 is VERY slow

[Dick Hessel]

That did the trick!  I did not realize that character set
translations where going on .  (I've never been a Unicode fan...)
Thanks!
Dick


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> Dick Hessel wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I was looking at some data in a 6MB text file using sort.
> > When I used the --key flag, the speed of sort was embarrassingly bad.
> > It was *~80 times slower* on my new Athlon64 processor as on
> > an old 1GHz P3 using cygwin's sort under Windows 2000!
> >
> > I ran
> > grep "konnect 1" Out_konnect | sort --key=4 -n |less
>
>
> Hmm, are you sure it's all sort's fault?
>
> can you time the following on the suse box:
>
> export LANG=C
> time grep -F "konnect 1" Out_konnect | sort --key=4,4n