# WIP: faster string sort

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/wip-faster-string-sort/7671>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** strings, sort\
**Created:** [December 10, 2017, 11:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/wip-faster-string-sort/7671 "2017-12-10T11:54:40Z")\
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Also, don’t time in global scope. Do

```nohighlight
foo(v) = codeunit_check_length.(v, 8)
@time foo(svec1)

```

if not `@btime foo($svec1)`.

Also, note that you are timing memory allocation of the output vector etcetera. I’m not clear on how exactly you are deciding how fast you need this to be.

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