Ooops, you are right. Silly error on my part. Still, my comment about heapq still stands,
and [hack, slash] 0.39713821814841893 (old) 0.35184029691278162 (hakced, for special list treatment) So, there is a 12% performance boost to be had by specializing for lists. How about it? K > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Antoine Pitrou > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 14:06 > To: python-dev@python.org > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] heapq, min and max > > This is clearly wrong. l.sort() will sort the list in place when it is > first > invoked, and therefore will be very fast in subsequent calls. > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com