Xref: utzoo comp.sources.wanted:16378 comp.text.tex:6961 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!m2xenix!quagga!hippo!spel From: spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. E.W. Lisse) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: sorter for large ascii files for msdos Message-ID: Date: 22 Apr 91 11:20:18 GMT References: <1991Apr20.024135.20183@cside1.uucp> Sender: usenet@quagga.ru.ac.za (Rhodes University NNTP server) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 43 In <1991Apr20.024135.20183@cside1.uucp> kuyper@cside1.uucp (Kuyper Hoffman) writes: >For those of you following the saga in sanet.uniforum, please note >my Distribution line!! >In article spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. E.W. Lisse) writes: >>I today discovered I need one that can handle 50.000 lines. (see below) >> >>I dug around in my ZIPs and found that other nice speller MicroSpell >>from MicroEmacs. I reread the docs and found a way of decompressing the >>dictionary to ASCII (I always maintained it saves to read the manuals >>:-)-O) Now I have merged the two dictionaries (13.000 and 48.000 words, >>400KB) >Out of interest, is this latter dictionary the same as the one >Tanenbaum placed in comp.os.minix some years ago? This was quite >nice as it was a purely Public Domain dictionary. No, it was timo salmi's and Dan Lawrence's. On the other hand I don't read os.minix... >>>It is however quite fast. 56 seconds for sortinmg through 13218 records >>>(127288Bytes) 232618 comparisons and at least half of the time >>>reading/writing to/from the 20ms hard disk. >I once wrote a sorter using a T800 Trnsputer to sort a dictionary of >more than 40 000 words. As the transputer had 2MB of RAM I kept it >all in main memory. The sort took but a few seconds, getting the >data across the bus to the Transputer memory though was something >else entirely.... >Regards >Kuyper >-- >| Kuyper Hoffman | Life is just a bowl of All-Bran | >| kuyper@cside1.UUCP | You wake up every morning | >| ....!ddsw1!olsa99!oct1!cside1!kuyper | And it's there.... | >\--------------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/ -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse (spel@hippo.ru.ac.ZA) Katatura State Hospital (formerly extel@quagga.ru.ac.za) Private Bag 13215 (Real Soon Now ... el@lisse.NA) Windhoek, Namibia (no FTP yet. [This is Africa :-)-O])