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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 11:12:12 EDT 2016


On 11 October 2016 at 15:32, Elliot Gorokhovsky <elliot.gorokhovsky at gmail.com> wrote:

But the sort mutates F...does the setup get executed each time? I thought it's just at the beginning. So then F gets mutated (sorted) and subsequent sorts time wrong.

Did I not say earlier - sorry. I'm suggesting that you put each timing run into a separate Python process.

Optimised code

python -m perf timeit -s "from mymod import FastList; L=;F=FastList(L)" "F.fastsort()"

Core sort routine

python -m perf timeit -s "L=" "L.sort()"

Or maybe, if FastList exposes the existing sort function as well

Non-optimised code

python -m perf timeit -s "from mymod import FastList; L=;F=FastList(L)" "F.sort()"

Paul.



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