On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 9:56 PM Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:

Once you get to the point of being able to do performance mentions on
a CPython build with a modified list.sort() implementation, you'll
want to take a look at the modern benchmark suite in
https://github.com/python/performance

Yup, that's the plan. I'm going to implement optimized compares for tuples, then implement this as a CPython build, and then run benchmark suites and write some rigorous benchmarks using perf/timeit.