in reply to Sorting a (very) large file

I would toss the data in a SQLITE database and let it do the dirty work.
I have beheld the tarball of 22.1 on ftp.gnu.org with my own eyes. How can you say that there is no God in the Church of Emacs? -- David Kastrup [tag://sort,etl,data]

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