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mc4ndr3 | 3 years ago

100x faster: Don't sort.

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janwas|3 years ago

Fair :) Sorting is useful in DB joins/group-by, though.

(Author here, happy to discuss.)

hypertele-Xii|3 years 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.

bradknowles|3 years ago

No sorting is faster than no sorting.