[sf-perl] Sorting vs. hash

[Andy Lester]

On Mar 28, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Neil Heller wrote:
> Is it faster to sort the array and then iterate once through the list
> (writing selected ones to a new array) or write them all into a hash  
> (at
> which time duplicates would be naturally eliminated)?


It's easy enough to test it and not have to speculate idly.

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