Revision history for Sort::External

0.18 2008-09-03

• Tamp down memory consumption.
• Increase default mem_threshold to 8 MiB.
• Improve testing reliability under Windows.

0.171 2008-08-22

• Fix support for Perl 5.6.2.
• Specify Perl 5.6.2 as a minimum version.

0.17 2008-08-17

• Prepended hyphens removed from parameter names (but -old_style_params still work).
• Fixed endless loop bug (RT #37623) which affected certain inputs when a sortsub was provided.
• Now uses only one temp file.
• Reimplemented using C-struct-based rather than Perl-hash-based objects.
• Clone dependency eliminated.

0.16 2005-12-09

• Restored -line_separator as dummy arg, for backwards compatibility with Search::Kinosearch 0.21.

0.15 2005-11-29

• Now preserves taint and utf8 flags.
• Explicitly forbid refs rather than fail with an IO error.
• -mem_threshold now the default flush trigger mechanism.
• -line_separator removed.

0.14 2005-11-01

• Fixed a memory leak.

0.13 2005-10-31

• Fixed compilation problems for pre-c99 compilers.

0.12 2005-10-21

• Fixed intermittent bug in gatekeeper algo which produced bad sorts.

0.11 2005-09-17

• 5-40% speed improvement, depending on config.
• Now an XS module (it already had XS dependencies).
• Devel::Size dependency eliminated.
• -mem_threshold now uses cruder but quicker algo for tracking memory.
• Now uses custom IO setup based on length => string pairings.
• Bugs associated with old IO based on linesep and split now gone.
• -line_separator deprecated, custom -line_separator removed.
• Fixed failing test.

0.10 2005-07-28

• Implemented -mem_threshold.
• Implemented -flags parameter for finish().

0.05 2005-07-17

• Fixed bug with empty -sortfile when no tempfiles were needed.
• Fixed bug sorting empty strings with -line_separator specified.

0.04 2005-06-29

• Fixed 2 bugs regarding random line separator.

0.03 2005-06-09

• Fixed 1-in-10 crashing bug.
• Added 'random' -line_separator functionality.

0.02 2005-06-07

• Fixed bug where fetch returned 0 rather than undef.
• Fixed crashing bug when finish called before feed.
• Change to only use disk cache if necessary.

0.01 2005-05-29

• Moved from Sort::MonsterSort to Sort::External at the suggestion of the PAUSE admins.