[racket-dev] Feature request: Vector-sort

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:

> Actually, the `sort' code uses a vector to do its work, which is
> initialized from the input list.  But it doesn't help much to make it
> deal with vectors too, since the vector that is used for the sorting
> work needs to be bigger than the input -- so to sort a vector you'd
> still need to create a copy.  Given that, you can usually just do the
> usual (list->vector (sort (vector->list v) <)).

Thanks Eli.  Thats in fact what I'm presently doing.  i.e. vector->list

Its on a vector of 26000 structs each consisting of 4 numbers and two
very short lists of numbers (0-2 or 3 numbers each).

Harry