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And then, why not pack the offset on the end, and unpack substr -4 when you're done. Then you're down to a simple array sort and the only problem is the original one: sooner or later you scale up till you're paging forever.

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Re: Re: Re: Slow at sorting?
by guha (Priest) on Nov 22, 2001 at 04:08 UTC
    True, but I'm not certain that the hash is slower only that it requires more memory, however that has to be tested, IMHO.
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