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. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies
- [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order] David L. Nicol
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order] John Porter
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-ord... Nathan Torkington
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human... John Porter
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order] Jarkko Hietaniemi
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order] Dan Sugalski
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-ord... John Porter
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human... Jarkko Hietaniemi
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in h... John Porter
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text... Peter Scott
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human... Dan Sugalski
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order] Piers Cawley
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-ord... David L. Nicol
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human... Jarkko Hietaniemi
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in h... Jonathan Scott Duff
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text... Jarkko Hietaniemi
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting ... Jonathan Scott Duff
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sort... Uri Guttman
- Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in h... David L. Nicol
- Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order David L. Nicol