Has the first number always the same length?
Length of a numeric field is not an issue. Using unix (or gnu) sort, the OP problem would be a simple command line:
sort -k 1n -k 2n -k 10 big.file > sorted.big.file
That's equivalent to doing something like this in perl (but the perl version might take a lot longer, esp. if the file, stored in perl as an AoA, is bigger than available RAM):
perl -lane 'push @f,[@F]; END{
print join(" ",@$_)
for (sort{$$a[0]<=>$$b[0] ||
$$a[1]<=>$$b[1] ||
$$a[9] cmp $$b[9]} @f)}' big.file > sorted.big.file
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