[Info-vax] Suggestion: Adding a /SORT option to DIRECTORY and F$SEARCH ?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-01-26 kl. 15:03, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2022-01-26, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>> True, but with modern HW sizes then it would be an extremely
>> rare case.
>>
>> 1 thousand entries of 256 bytes is only 256 KB.
>>
>> 1 million entries of 256 bytes is "only" 256 MB.
>>
> 
> And that's only virtual memory which is needed. You don't even need
> that much physical memory to be present to process a gigantic directory.
> 
> Simon.
> 

How do you process this with reasonable performance if you do not
have the physical memory to store your filenames in and do the sorting?
And what kind of "virtual" memory are you talking about?