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Re:Show HN: hist: An overengineered solution to `sort|uniq -... by mfld on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:50AM (#45692018)
Nice - thanks! I assume the non-naive implementations skip the sorting and instead hash the input lines?
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Re:Show HN: hist: An overengineered solution to `sort|uniq -... by noamteyssier on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @02:34PM (#45736888)
yeah that's right - there are trade-offs in doing so as it can require much more memory. So like everything it's an application specific decision
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