Yes, I was talking about the pipeline version. Last time this came up, I tried a simple perl script[1] and it was quite a lot faster than the pipeline. Even wi

Yes, I was talking about the pipeline version. Last time this came up, I tried a simple perl script[1] and it was quite a lot faster than the pipeline. Even without using a heap to further limit the sorting. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30038415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30038415