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Re:An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x t... by nasretdinov on Monday October 27, 2025 @03:25AM (#45718235)
Note that by default sort command has a pretty low memory usage and spills to disk. You can improve the throughput quite a bit by increasing the allowed memory usage: --buffer-size=SIZE
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Re:An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x t... by noamteyssier on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @12:42PM (#45735191)
I didn't know that - I've added in buffer size with a fairly large buffer to the benchmarks as well
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