- Change default sort method to mergesort, which has a better worst case
performance than qsort
Submitted by: Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com>
- Do not use mmap() by default; it can be enabled by --mmap
- Add some minor optimizations for -u
- Update manual page according to the changes
Submitted by: Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com>
with the major functionality and optimizations by Oleg Moskalenko.
It is compatible with the latest version of POSIX and the current GNU sort
version that we have in base. Beside this, it implements all the
functionality introduced in later versions of GNU sort. For now, it will
be installed as "bsdsort", keeping GNU sort as the default sort
implementation.