Avoid copies in sorting #5242

Job	Run time
build_linux (3.9)	36m 32s
build_linux (3.10)	38m 34s
build_linux (3.11)	37m 3s
build_linux (3.12)	37m 6s
build_windows (3.9)	1h 2m 34s
build_linux (3.13)	37m 49s
build_windows (3.10)	1h 18m 52s
build_windows (3.11)	1h 10m 12s
build_windows (3.12)	1h 2m 19s
build_windows (3.13)	1h 11m 23s
array-api-conformity (3.10, false, ubuntu-22.04)	6m 57s
test_examples_linux (3.11, false, ubuntu-22.04)	25m 44s
test_linux (3.9, false, ubuntu-22.04)	13m 9s
test_linux (3.10, false, ubuntu-22.04)	11m 47s
test_linux (3.11, false, ubuntu-22.04)	13m 25s
test_linux (3.12, false, ubuntu-22.04)	13m 2s
test_linux (3.13, false, ubuntu-22.04)	12m 41s
upload_linux	0s
test_windows (3.9, false, windows-2019)	15m 27s
test_windows (3.10, false, windows-2019)	14m 4s
test_windows (3.11, false, windows-2019)	14m 28s
test_windows (3.12, false, windows-2019)	14m 35s
test_windows (3.13, false, windows-2019)	14m 36s
upload_windows	0s
Clean up anaconda packages	0s
	11h 42m 19s

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