[DUG]Sorting Stringlist

[John Bird]

If loading a file into a stringlist and then sorting, is it in general
quicker to:

1 -  MyStringList.sorted:=false;
     MyStringList.LoadFromFile(filename);
     MyStringList.sort;

-or-

2 -   MyStringList.sorted:=true;
      MyStringList.LoadFromFile(filename);

As I understand it, loadfromfile method uses add, which takes note of
whether list is to be sorted or not...
Hence case 1 just adds each new line to the end of the stringlist, case 2
adds each record to the correct sorted order place.  My guess is 1 is
faster, but I am guessing.

Number of records in file may be anywhere from 10 to 100,000

John B
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