[Python-Dev] RE: test_sort.py failure (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Thu Jul 29 08:05:44 CEST 2004

Tim Peters wrote:

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

I guess it would depend on how consistently it could be provoked. That's the rub -- it depends on whether the system realloc() manages (in the pre-patch code) to extend the initial emptyobitem thingie in-place, and do all subsequent extends in-place too. The overall odds should be better the shorter the initial list (> 1), but it still depends on the system realloc(), and almost certainly depends too on the state of the C malloc heap at the time the test begins.

If a shorter list would provoke this more consistently, would there be a benefit in having test_sort run this test twice? (Once with length 50, once with length 3)

Regards, Nick.

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