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Subject: Re: tuple radix sort
To: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>
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Hi John!

On 15.11.2025 03:47, John Naylor wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I understand that you want to make progress with the use case at hand
>> but I feel like we're missing out on a lot of opportunity where the
>> introduced code would also be very beneficial.
> 
> The patch is independently beneficial, but is also just a stepping
> stone toward something larger, and I don't yet know exactly how it's
> going to look. Premature abstractions are just going to get in the
> way. I'd be open to hear proposals for possible wider application
> after the dust settles, but that's not going to happen during the PG19
> cycle.
> 

That sounds like a good compromise. Let's see what else can profit from
the new sorting code once we've got the tuple sort in.

--
David Geier