Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order]

[Peter Scott]

At 04:34 PM 12/28/00 -0500, John Porter wrote:
>I seem to recall someone suggested on perl6-language a while back*
>(or was it perl6-internals?) that perl ought also to support efficient
>sorting of large volumes of data by using disk, the way unix sort does.
>Pluggable algorithms would make this possible too.
>Although, I suppose you'd actually like to make it possible for perl
>intrinsics to use disk buffers whenever necessary, globally.
>
>(*If the mail archives were searchable, I'd give an actual reference.)

http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language@perl.org/index.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/index.html

Although I cannot find an article referring to what you mention.  It does 
sound familiar though.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies