[Python-Dev] Re: timsort?

[Gareth McCaughan]

Tim Peters wrote:

> Note that we switched from doing two minor releases per year, to something
> like one minor release per two years (2.2 was released in 2001!).  timsort
> is less than a year old, IIRC.  Since it can raise MemoryError where the 2.2
> sort could not, and may compute different results on the same inputs, it was
> much more a new feature than a bugfix.

Remind me why raising MemoryError is better than punting
and sorting the list some other way?

-- 
Gareth McCaughan