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[Python-Dev] Drastically improving list.sort() for lists of strings/ints

[Python-Dev] Drastically improving list.sort() for lists of strings/ints [Python-Dev] Drastically improving list.sort() for lists of strings/intsStephen J. Turnbull turnbull.stephen.fw at u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Tue Sep 13 14:31:28 EDT 2016
Nikolaus Rath writes:

 > Out of curiosity: is this test repeated periodically on different
 > architectures? Or could it be that it only ever was true 10 years
 > ago on Tim's Power Mac G5 (or whatever he used)?

This is the same Tim Peters of the eponymous test for readability of
syntax: "Syntax shall not look like grit on Tim's screen."  I don't
know if that will help you decide whether to trust his analysis, but
it comforts me.<0.5 wink/>

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