He's gonna need some optimisations, or War & peace:)
He must be a quick reader then.

I timed the above program keeping 100 items which I think is reasonable. "AA" .. "ZZ" returns 676 items, thus that's about 575 possible loops that may use sort — which only actually happens if there's a new value in the current top 100. Eventually that should become quite rare. The program takes about 1/6th of a second on my system, a humble Pentium 500MHz. Doing the same for 1 million records will thus take about 6 minutes.

p.s. The loop without the sort takes 50ms. Thus, the sort takes about 2.4 times as long as the loop itself, or 70% of the total running time.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: *Fastest* way to print a hash sorted by value by bart
in thread *Fastest* way to print a hash sorted by value by smellysocks

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