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Evaldas Buinauskas

Seems that sort has worse performance compared to reduce. Reduce is O(n) while sort is O(n long)

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Alex Lohr

Yes, the performance is worse. But unless you need the solution to scale to arrays with more than a few thousand words, this will hardly be an issue.

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Evaldas Buinauskas

True. Just wrote that because it wasn't mentioned anywhere and someone might care about it.

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theMightiestT

valid point but I agree with Alex... not sure it would really be a thing in an implementation like this