Re^5: selecting columns from a tab-separated-values file

It took 60 seconds to pass 10M (M=million) records.

Hm. 10e6 in a minute suggests a total time for 1e9 of well under 2 hours.

This post mentions a time of 5 hours. What changed?

With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'

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Re^6: selecting columns from a tab-separated-values file by ibm1620 (Hermit) on Jan 24, 2013 at 00:13 UTC
The number of fields being extracted, mainly. My example of three fields was just a simplified illustration of my question.	[reply]