On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:31:03 +1100, Neil Hodgson wrote: > >> Sorting a million string list (all the file paths on a particular >> computer) went from 0.4 seconds with Python 3.2 to 0.78 with 3.3 so >> we're out of the 'not noticeable by humans' range. Perhaps this is still >> a 'micro-benchmark' - I'd just like to avoid adding email access to get >> this over the threshold. > > I cannot confirm this performance regression. On my laptop (Debian Linux, > not Windows), I can sort a million file names in approximately 1.2 > seconds in both Python 3.2 and 3.3. There is no meaningful difference in > speed between the two versions.
I'd be curious to know the sorts of characters used. Given that it's probably a narrow-vs-wide Python difference we're talking here, the actual distribution of codepoints may well make a difference. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
