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BrowserUk,
This reminds me of Better mousetrap (getting top N values from list X).

Cheers - L~R

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Re^3: Limit the size of a hash (beware of 'add one and (re)sort and discard' algorithms)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 05, 2013 at 15:25 UTC

    Indeed. But I'm still not at all convinced that the OP is actually after a simple top 10 from 715 million records.


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