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Parallelize merge sort

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Ole Tange <tange <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 46169 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46169: Parallelize merge sort
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:19:23 -0800

On 1/29/21 1:07 AM, Ole Tange wrote:
> Could you consider implementing a parallel merge, so I can retire
> parsort?

Yes, improving that part of 'sort' performance has been on my long list 
of things to do for quite some time. If someone else could take up the 
task it'd be done quicker.... Anyway, thanks for reporting it as a bug, 
so that we can track it in our bug database.

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