OeufMayo once gave me a useful link about efficient sorting in Perl.

You may find there several useful tricks and facts that everybody (IMHO) should know :

• The Schwartzian Transform from our beloved merlyn.
• The Orcish Maneuver.
• The packed-string sortkey.
• A 'quite deep' approach of the sort function.
• The Sort::Records module.
• ...

Please just read it, you won't regret it...


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