# 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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**Author:** ![xiaodai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/xiaodai/32/15937_2.png) [@xiaodai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaodai)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/wip-faster-string-sort/7671/51 "2017-12-29T00:39:38Z")

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It will be really good if I can get some help with the following posts. It will help me create a faster pure Julia string sorting algorithm

[Assign values in user-defined primitive type](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-write-bits-into-a-user-defined-primitive-type/8053)

[`bswap_int` for user-defined primitive type](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-define-an-efficient-bswap-int-for-user-defined-primitive-types/8051/1)

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