On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Sunil S Nandihalli
<sunil.nandiha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>  I have a very large, but with finite size, collection. I would like to get
> like first 10 elements in the sorted list . I would use a heap if I were in
> c++ .. is there a inbuilt implementation of this in clojure? .. Is there
> some other way to achieve this? some sort of lazy sort would be perfect. I
> know I need the full collection to start with .. but that is fine.

A seq on a sorted set should be pretty efficient.

(take 3 (sorted-set 8 2 1 4 6 9 7 3))
;=> (1 2 3)

--Chouser

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