Sorting Large File (Code/Performance)

[John Nagle]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> writes:
>>     - Get enough memory to do the sort with an in-memory sort, like
>>       UNIX "sort" or Python's "sort" function.
> 
> Unix sort does external sorting when needed.

   Ah, someone finally put that in.  Good. I hadn't looked at "sort"'s manual
page in many years.

				John Nagle