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Diffstat (limited to 'src/sort.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/sort.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c index e10159a9b..084addf49 100644 --- a/src/sort.c +++ b/src/sort.c @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ struct rlimit { size_t rlim_cur; }; /* Heuristic value for the number of lines for which it is worth creating a subthread, during an internal merge sort. I.e., it is a small number of "average" lines for which sorting via two threads is faster than - sorting via one on an "average" system. On an dual-core 2.0 GHz i686 + sorting via one on an "average" system. On a dual-core 2.0 GHz i686 system with 3GB of RAM and 2MB of L2 cache, a file containing 128K lines of gensort -a output is sorted slightly faster with --parallel=2 than with --parallel=1. By contrast, using --parallel=1 is about 10% @@ -2029,7 +2029,7 @@ compare_random (char *restrict texta, size_t lena, char *restrict textb, size_t lenb) { /* XFRM_DIFF records the equivalent of memcmp on the transformed - data. This is used to break ties if there is an checksum + data. This is used to break ties if there is a checksum collision, and this is good enough given the astronomically low probability of a collision. */ int xfrm_diff = 0; |