On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 06:59:52 -0800 (PST), skaller
<skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> If you know something of the distribution of your keys,
> which are strings, you can also make this much faster
> by indexing using some suitable monotonic function
> on the string prefix, and only sorting equivalent
> strings.

This is a nice idea that crossed my mind. If a simpler (to code)
solution won't work I'll definitely try it.

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