Hi,

> You will be happy to hear that in the next Firebird release (call it
> v1.5), Dmitry Yemanov has added logic to allow for the remaining RAM to
> be used by FB for temporary/sort files/datasets. Currently, the engine
> pages these files to disk in increment of 128Kb. Thus, you will see a
> dramatic increase in performance for medium to large sorts.

This is very good news!!!

Keep up the good work!

Martijn Tonies
InterBase Workbench - the developer tool for InterBase and Firebird
http://www.interbaseworkbench.com

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