On Dec 28, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Sean Baker wrote:
The question of "is it faster" is almost always irrelevant.Processor time is orders of magnitude less expensive than programmer time. Try telling that to my boss! I'm always saying throw more hardware at it, lol.....
Then use profiling tools to find out where your hotspots are. Chances are that the specifics of how to write a sort are not the bottleneck.
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