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Looks like there's a Rust implementation: https://crates.io/crates/afsort

> When sorting English words, this implementation seems to be about 40% faster than sort_unstable from the Rust standard library.

That's better than I would have expected. It would be interesting to see how it does on other types of string sort problems.

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Hi! Crate author here, happy to see my old project getting mentioned. Let me know if you have any questions!

Do you actively use this function in any projects? What was your inspiration to write the crate?

I don't actively use it, unfortunately. The main inspiration was to faster sort inputs into the https://github.com/BurntSushi/fst crate, which I in turn used to try to build a search library.

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