[erlang-questions] fast tuple sorting

[Dmitry Kolesnikov]

Hello,

I need to sort a list of tuples {integer(), float()} within 6 ms. the lists:keysort(1, X) is not fast enough for me. I am able to meet the hard requirement only if the list size about 10K tuples. However, my application needs to sort lists of 50K tuples or so.

I doubt that any other sort algorithm implemented in Erlang would solve my issue. Parallel sort would not help at all because production system would run parallel requests of lists sorting. I am starting to think of offloading the sorting to NIF. 

Any thought?

Best Regards, 
Dmitry