Consider an arbitrary itr that returns a sequence of values. Now maximum(itr) will return max value, is there a way to return the maximum 2 values? partialsort(collect(itr), 2) would do the trick but collect might be expensive. Wonder if there’s a elegant function to do it? The below is the bes…

Is there an efficient and elegant way to keep the top 2 values from an iterator

rocco_sprmnt21 February 26, 2022, 2:16pm 2

here some related proposals.

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