From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2008-04-29T02:26:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Transpose a large file(>2GB)

On Apr 28, 2008, at 19:20 , Lionel Bouton wrote:

> With this method you'll always read/write sequential data on disk  
> when it's possible with as large data chunks as possible without  
> hitting the swap.

In what sense is it sequential? These approeaches require prepending/ 
appending *rectangular* chunks of text in the ouput file?