Re: Sorting large file

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

> Does it not work anymore - software rot?  What fancy thing do you plan to
> do?

Works fine, this new project is unrelated.
I was not planning to get fancy, you were.

Some timing measurements (on a smaller file of
1,000,000 10-char records):

AS/400 (170) internal sort (combsort):   2 minutes
AS/400 (170) FMTDTA:          4 minutes
My humble laptop PC (sort):    4 minutes


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