> In the absence of such benchmarking (and also in the absence of any > indication of a performance issue) I think the approach of directly > sorting the hash refs wins merely by virtue of being so much simpler.
Agreed. Although, I took the the use of the ST in the original code as precisely that: an "indication of a performance issue". Of course, given that Dermot just admitted that he's coding by pure instinct, that inference was clearly unwarranted. ;-) Damian
