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@@ -5,6 +5,19 @@ * man/pwd.x, man/echo.x, man/printf.x: Fix typo: s/supercede/supersede/ reported by Andrew Fabbro. +2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Improve performance of `sort -m' on large files, at the cost of + making some contrived examples unsafe. POSIX allows this + optimization. Performance problem reported by Jonathan Baker in + <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-05/msg00071.html>. + + * src/sort.c (first_same_file): Do not treat input pipes + differently from other files. + * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document that "sort -m -o F" + might write F before reading all the input. + * NEWS: Likewise. + 2004-05-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> * src/od.c (print_ascii, dump_strings): Use e.g. '\a' rather than |