[Python-Dev] Drastically improving list.sort() for lists of strings/ints

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Sep 11 2016, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> Tim Peters investigated and empirically determined that an
> O(n*n) binary insort, as he optimized it on real machines, is faster
> than O(n*logn) sorting for up to around 64 items.

Out of curiosity: is this test repeated periodically on different
architectures? Or could it be that it only ever was true 10 years ago on
Tim's Power Mac G5 (or whatever he used)?

Best,
-Nikolaus

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