On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 8:23 PM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > > But also, it's not just the number of list objects that are sorted, but > how often it's done. I could have a 10,000 line program with only one call > to `my_list.sort()` in it... but that one line is something that is called > inside an inner loop. This feels like it really needs profiling not just > static analysis. >
Totally -- but what I mean is if you look at the performance benchmark suite, for example, most of the benchmarks do not have the string "sort" in their source code (IIRC). I think that most applications don't spend most of their time sorting. That's not to say sorting isn't important -- I wouldn't have written my patch if I didn't think it is. I'm just saying it probably isn't a good idea to penalize *all* list use just to benefit the minority of list use that involves sorting.
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