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> Essentially you pick what fields in complex (maybe even nested) data structures to sort by, in what order, and the system makes a sort. Wait, is that it? Wha

> Essentially you pick what fields in complex (maybe even nested) data structures to sort by, in what order, and the system makes a sort. Wait, is that it? What makes this novel?

KirinDave 9y ago
What's novel is projecting that operation efficiently into a field where radix sort can operate on all the discrimination at once.
- Veedrac 9y ago
  Can you give an example where the obvious method is inefficient, and what this would do?