When you use both select-object and sort-object in a pipeline, what's the proper order? Let's check how fast they execute. Each speed test is built from two similar commands with a different sort/select piping order and each test is executed 10 times. The total execution time is measured in Milliseconds. - Updated: 06/11/2008 (see comment below by Lee Holmes ) - Test #1 PS > (measure-Command { 1..10 | foreach { gsv | sort name | select name,status }}).TotalMilliseconds 444.5451 PS >...