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Old 11-20-2009, 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by WhiteDragon View Post
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Based on his post, it seemed obvious that he was having a lot of data to be sorted, and also that it would be at least somewhat permanent. I didn't mean to sound like I meant that SQLite was the way to go to sort all data.

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Originally Posted by Chompy View Post
Stuff in text like this is debatable (see post above), but the text like this is wrong. SQLite is not easier then using f.ex. one the algorithms that WhiteDragon provided in the link that Codein provided.
That SQLite is more efficient isn't really debatable, it just depends on the situation. That it is easier is debatable. Again, it depends on the situation. For sorting temporary data, it's probably easier to use Quicksort or some other algorithm.
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