On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 01:40:56PM -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > There's this classic patter on Unix: |sort|uniq, i.e. sort some data > and only display the unique elements. > > What would be a better integrated version - one that does sorting and > uniq in one shot? I suspect the combination could be quite a bit > better than doing the two in sequence. > > A few google searches didn't yield much. Ideas? [...]
Off the top of my head: a sorting algorithm that swallows identical elements? I've never actually seen such an algorithm before, though. Generally, sorting algorithms try not to output less elements than they were given. :-P T -- Marketing: the art of convincing people to pay for what they didn't need before which you fail to deliver after.
