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Date: | Wed, 22 Jan 1997 08:43:00 PST |
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Joe asks how to sort a file with long records.
<plug>
Likely the best way is with our Suprtool product. We use our own sort
routines that have the advantage of:
1. Using 1/2 the scratch space that HP's routines do,
2. Sort about 20% faster, and
3. Allow sorting of longer records (as of MPE/iX 3.0 the limit in
HP's sort routines was 8192-byte records, but this may have
changed in subsequent versions of MPE/iX).
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BTW, I'm not certain why Joe gets this specific error. He mentioned
that HP's routines are in CM. When I did extensive timing and testing
of HP's routines, I'm 99% certain that while sort.pub.sys is a CM
program that calls the CM sort intrinsics, they in turn just do a
cm/nm switch to the native-mode routines. Thus all sorts are really
in NM, although there could be some restrictions for CM programs that
first call the CM routines.
Cheers,
David <[log in to unmask]>
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