Re: Re: Balancing Coding Time And Code Quality

[waswas-fng]

or drop the sort and diff and use comm with -1, -2, -3 to get the master unique, slave unique and unions.

[sauoq]

or drop the sort and diff and use comm

Agreed; comm rocks. You can't drop the sort, however, as comm expects sorted input.

Update: I expect you know this as I just noticed you explicitly mentioned pre-sorted lists elsewhere in this thread. I suppose it is worth repeating here anyway though.