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by mc4ndr3 1479 days ago
100x faster: Don't sort.
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janwas 1479 days ago
Fair :) Sorting is useful in DB joins/group-by, though.

(Author here, happy to discuss.)

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hypertele-Xii 1479 days ago
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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bradknowles 1478 days ago
No sorting is faster than no sorting.
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