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[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Tim Peters wrote:
> In short, there's no real "speed argument" against this anymore (as I said
> in the first msg of this thread, the ~sort regression was serious -- it's an
> important case; turns out galloping is very effective at speeding it too,
> provided that dumbass premature special-casing doesn't stop galloping from
> trying <wink>).

This is fantastic work, Tim.  I'm all for switching over to timsort as
the one standard sort method.


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