[Python-Dev] Optimizing list.sort() by checking type in advance

[Greg Ewing]

Elliot Gorokhovsky wrote:
> I ran the 
> benchmark a couple of times and the numbers seem to exactly line up 
> something like one in five times; perhaps not that crazy considering 
> they're executing nearly the same code?

Could this be a result of a time being measured in seconds
somewhere and then divided down?

> *** 1e7 ints + 1 float (to disable the optimization while keeping the precheck)***
> F.fastsort(): 7.57237982749939
> F.sort(): 7.666172504425049

This result looks a bit suspicious too -- it's hard to see
how fastsort could be faster even when the optimisation
is not being used.

-- 
Greg