Re^2: statistics of a large text

Hi Is there anyway to skip the sort part! linux sort (with -d and -f) options takes a long time to run! how could I scape that?

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Re^3: statistics of a large text by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 08, 2011 at 15:32 UTC
No, there isn't. Sorting does the actual work, and therefore takes the bulk of the time. If it is too slow, then it is time for you to look into distributing (and parallelizing) the work with Hadoop.	[reply]