[issue4174] Performance optimization for min() and max() over lists

[Kristján Valur Jónsson]

New submission from Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com>:

This adds a special case for min() and max() when iterating over lists.
For simple lists of floats, the improvement is some 15% on a windows 
machine using release build (non pgo)

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components: Interpreter Core
files: minmax.patch
keywords: needs review, patch, patch
messages: 75082
nosy: krisvale
severity: normal
status: open
title: Performance optimization for min() and max() over lists
type: performance
versions: Python 2.5.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11857/minmax.patch

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