Re^3: Sort command equivalent in perl

You're right. it wouldn't work for files greater than memory.

I thought it might for a while because of the in-place sort optimisation that came in somewhere in 5.8.x, that means that:

@ar = sort @r;
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gets converted to sort \@ar; and sorts in place rather then copies the array to the stack and back.

But looking at the code, it doesn't work for tied arrays:

    /* optimiser converts "@a = sort @a" to "sort \@a";
     * in case of tied @a, pessimise: push (@a) onto stack, then assig
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     * result back to @a at the end of this function */
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Re^4: Sort command equivalent in perl by davido (Cardinal) on Dec 16, 2011 at 17:25 UTC
Yup, there's the gotcha that gotme. :) I remembered that `@array = sort @array` doesn't make a copy, but failed to think through the fact that tie would be different. Dave	[reply] [d/l]