tilly,
I understand the need for speed. I added as many optimizations as possible to only run the sort routine when needed. The user is able to specify their own sort routine which can lead to more efficient sorts. I also traded space for time. It can obviously be improved by adding a whole lot of complexity to the underlying code. That is more effort than I am willing to invest on a module I have never used myself and doesn't appear to be very popular.

I am not sure what you mean WRT a pairwise comparison function. Are you wanting to assign points to a key based off how it matches up against every other key and then sort them based off the results? That is certainly doable and I can give an example if you want. Just let me know if I am in left field.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^2: RFC - Tie::Hash::Ranked by Limbic~Region
in thread RFC - Tie::Hash::Ranked by Limbic~Region

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