3 o Records of odd lengths.
7 o Alignment? Use of SSE?
8 o Use radix-sort for internal sorting.
9 o Parallelization of internal sorting.
10 o Clean up data types and make sure they cannot overflow. (size_t vs. u64 vs. sh_off_t vs. uns)
11 o Buffer sizing in internal sorters.
12 o Switching between direct and normal I/O.
13 o When merging, choose the output file with less runs instead of always switching?
14 o Implement multi-way merge.
15 o Mode with only 2-way unification?
16 o Speed up 2-way merge.
17 o Speed up radix splitting.
18 o A debug switch for disabling the presorter.