>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
