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Re:Data structures and algorithms I actually used while work... by eru on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:54AM (#23843510)
In the same vein, pre-processing your data via sorting on some carefully chosen keys can sometimes alleviate the need for purpose built data structures.

And because of caches, sorting can sometimes beat hashtables.

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