Daniel Stutzbach <stutzb...@google.com> added the comment: > Just wanted to post this so there weren't any illusions about the > patch being a big win.
> When a key function is defined, this is all you can possibly shave > off the time for a comparison. I don't want to argue whether the patch is a big win or not (I recognize that it is a tradeoff), but when using a key it does shave off more than the call to sortwrapper_richcompare. Stack with sortwrapper: long_richcompare do_richcompare PyObject_RichCompare sortwrapper_richcompare do_richcompare PyObject_RichCompare PyObject_RichCompareBool count_run list_sort Stack without: long_richcompare do_richcompare PyObject_RichCompare PyObject_RichCompareBool count_run list_sort ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9915> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
