Worker threads now use a pthread_cond_t to wait for work instead of
burning the cpu up.
Obtained from: DragonflyBSD (07774aea0ccf64a48fcfad8899e3bf7c8f18277a)
MFC after: 2 weeks
zero-length array are dynamically sized at run-time based on the use
of hints, compilers can't be expected to figure out these offsets on
their own. [1]
- Fix incorrect comparison in cmp_nans(). [2]
PR: 204571 [1], 202301 [2]
Submitted by: David Binderman [2]
MFC after: 3 days
- 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.
