Re: Multi-threading in sort(or core-utils)

[Paul Eggert]

>> address@hidden wrote:
>>> I think it is good idea to make option(or by default) for sorting
>>> in threads to increase performance on systems that might execute
>>> more than one thread in parallel.
>>>    Klimentov Konstantin.

I agree.  That's been on my to-do list for years.  (It shouldn't be
that hard, if you ignore portability hassles.  :-)

Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:

> 5. I think it would be nice for dd to support reading portions of
> a file efficiently. As far as I can see it can only do it by reading
> 1 byte at a time. Perhaps skip_bytes=x and count_bytes=x would
> be useful additions?

These also sound like good suggestions.