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Sort-Maker (0.04)

Sorting may seem "simple," and sometimes it is. But when you need to be able to dynamically sort things in unexpected ways and still be reasonably fast for non-trivial data sets, the complexity mounts. Scattering sort optimization logic in a dozen places throughout your application is a maintance nightmare. That's when you realize you need Sort::Maker.

I encountered this same need years ago, before Sort::Maker had been published, and ended up writing the Data::Sorting module, which uses many of the same techniques, but for future applications I think I'll reach for Sort::Maker first.

Matthew Simon Cavalletto - 2005-07-22 14:08:42
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Sort-Maker (0.04)

It seems to me that this module just complicates a simple thing (sorting). The call and options to make_sorter can be (to me) longer or harder to remember than just using sort directly in the first place. The documentation is very detailed and educational, however.

Ivan Tubert - 2004-10-10 08:40:11
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