freedman@nas.nasa.gov (Richard S. Freedman) (04/21/91)
I am looking for advice on either speeding up the unicos sort utility or a good alternative. I am spending a lot of time (but not memory) using unicos "sort" to order a large database - about 5 to 7 E6 entries. Under the old XMP I was able to use "tuning" parameters in sort to greatly speed up the sort. This seems to be impossible in unicos, and the sort utility never seems to use much memory, only a lot of time. Would using a C routine, or even fortran, be faster ? thanks for any advice, Richard Freedman