From | JACK STEIN
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> Ok, I created a 10,000+ line file from the nodediff, loaded it into TSE 
ro,
> marked the 1st 15 columns and did a sort, it bombed, had to kill the dos
> session.  It didn't get far enough along to see if it made dupe lines.
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   To | RON MCLEOD
That's a large file (roughly 770K).  This is going to mean that TSE Pro
2.0 is going have to do a lot of swapping which is going to slow it down
quite a bit.  Most likely, it was still running when you killed it.
The sort speed in TSE 2.5 has been dramatically increased by using an
external sort.
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> I sorted the whole line with SORT03 for DOS in 7+ seconds, 6+
> seconds with SORT1.9 for OS/2.  Then I loaded the file into BOXER
> for OS/2, marked and sorted, and it worked, fast too.
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The problem here is that the structures used for editing a file, versus
the structures used for sorting are extremely different.  In order for
our macro language, and all of the editing functions to be the fastest /
best they can we optimized the internals to handle it.  Unfortunately
this means that the handling for things like sorting isn't as good.
                           George J. De Bruin
                       SemWare Technical Support
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