STINNER Victor added the comment: "My interpretation of the results. In CPython using operator.itemgetter() makes sorting up to 2 times faster"
If I remember correctly, Python functions implemented in C don't create a Python frame. The Python frame is an important cost in term of performances. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23493> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com