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Re:10x Faster sort than C++ std:sort by mc4ndr3 on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:19AM (#31609499)
100x faster: Don't sort.
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Re:10x Faster sort than C++ std:sort by janwas on Friday June 03, 2022 @03:07PM (#31612379)
Fair :) Sorting is useful in DB joins/group-by, though.

(Author here, happy to discuss.)

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Re:10x Faster sort than C++ std:sort by hypertele-Xii on Friday June 03, 2022 @06:50PM (#31614701)
At first glance seems like a snarky dismissal, but this is actually valid, actionable advice. If you can arrange your data flow in such a way that sorting is unnecessary, you've avoided an expensive optimization problem altogether.
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Re:10x Faster sort than C++ std:sort by bradknowles on Saturday June 04, 2022 @05:04PM (#31625047)
No sorting is faster than no sorting.
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