Op 08-04-16 om 15:52 schreef Marko Rauhamaa: > Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be>: > >> Well having a list of 1000 Sequence like object. Each sequence >> containing between 1 and 100 numbers. Comparing each sequence >> to each other a 100 times. I get the following results. >> >> Doing it as follows: >> seq1 < seq2 >> seq2 < seq1 >> >> takes about 110 seconds. >> >> Doing it like this: >> delta = cmp(seq1, seq2) >> delta < 0 >> delta > 0 >> >> takes about 50 seconds. > Looks like a completely artificial scenario. > It is the code I run when I traverse a tree and decide either to go left, right or have found the node I am looking for.
And yes I have worked with keys like that. -- Antoon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
