[Python-Dev] Optimizing list.sort() by checking type in advance (original) (raw)

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Mon Oct 10 16:53:19 EDT 2016


On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Elliot Gorokhovsky <elliot.gorokhovsky at gmail.com> wrote:

*** 10 strings *** F.fastsort(): 1.6689300537109375e-06 F.sort(): 1.6689300537109375e-06

I think something has gone wrong with your timing harness...

For accurately timing microbenchmarks, you should use timeit, or better yet Victor Stinner's perf package: https://perf.readthedocs.io/

-n

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