On 06/06/2021 11.42, Marco Sulla wrote: > As title. Is it faster for inplace sorting, or simply the > implementation of list.sort() was done before the implementation of > timsort?
list.sort() uses timsort. What makes you think that Python uses mergesort? Tim Peters invented timsort for Python about twenty years ago. Tim a first generation Python core dev. Other languages like Java adopted timsort from Python later. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/P7XFRAU6GL2CH6RBXPLGXEK4AL5KF2HV/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
