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author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2002-07-19 03:30:57 (GMT) |
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committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2002-07-19 03:30:57 (GMT) |
commit | a8c974c157c8f4e2b0c16b9be638db54748aa12b (patch) | |
tree | dbcc99af3d14781dda91240d0029d1992a0a3eee /Objects/listobject.c | |
parent | 3b01a1217f3bbde4c40e08e2e64f268410f6fdcf (diff) | |
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Cleanup yielding a small speed boost: before rich comparisons were
introduced, list.sort() was rewritten to use only the "< or not <?"
distinction. After rich comparisons were introduced, docompare() was
fiddled to translate a Py_LT Boolean result into the old "-1 for <,
0 for ==, 1 for >" flavor of outcome, and the sorting code was left
alone. This left things more obscure than they should be, and turns
out it also cost measurable cycles.
So: The old CMPERROR novelty is gone. docompare() is renamed to islt(),
and now has the same return conditinos as PyObject_RichCompareBool. The
SETK macro is renamed to ISLT, and is even weirder than before (don't
complain unless you want to maintain the sort code <wink>).
Overall, this yields a 1-2% speedup in the usual (no explicit function
passed to list.sort()) case when sorting arrays of floats (as sortperf.py
does). The boost is higher for arrays of ints.
Diffstat (limited to 'Objects/listobject.c')
-rw-r--r-- | Objects/listobject.c | 82 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 50 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/listobject.c b/Objects/listobject.c index ce78fff..f2132b4 100644 --- a/Objects/listobject.c +++ b/Objects/listobject.c @@ -758,39 +758,28 @@ reverse_slice(PyObject **lo, PyObject **hi) /* New quicksort implementation for arrays of object pointers. Thanks to discussions with Tim Peters. */ -/* CMPERROR is returned by our comparison function when an error - occurred. This is the largest negative integer (0x80000000 on a - 32-bit system). */ -#define CMPERROR ( (int) ((unsigned int)1 << (8*sizeof(int) - 1)) ) - /* Comparison function. Takes care of calling a user-supplied comparison function (any callable Python object). Calls the - standard comparison function, PyObject_Compare(), if the user- - supplied function is NULL. */ + standard comparison function, PyObject_RichCompareBool(), if the user- + supplied function is NULL. + Returns <0 on error, >0 if x < y, 0 if x >= y. */ static int -docompare(PyObject *x, PyObject *y, PyObject *compare) +islt(PyObject *x, PyObject *y, PyObject *compare) { PyObject *res; PyObject *args; int i; - if (compare == NULL) { - /* NOTE: we rely on the fact here that the sorting algorithm - only ever checks whether k<0, i.e., whether x<y. So we - invoke the rich comparison function with Py_LT ('<'), and - return -1 when it returns true and 0 when it returns - false. */ - i = PyObject_RichCompareBool(x, y, Py_LT); - if (i < 0) - return CMPERROR; - else - return -i; - } + if (compare == NULL) + return PyObject_RichCompareBool(x, y, Py_LT); + /* Call the user's comparison function and translate the 3-way + * result into true or false (or error). + */ args = PyTuple_New(2); if (args == NULL) - return CMPERROR; + return -1; Py_INCREF(x); Py_INCREF(y); PyTuple_SET_ITEM(args, 0, x); @@ -798,20 +787,16 @@ docompare(PyObject *x, PyObject *y, PyObject *compare) res = PyObject_Call(compare, args, NULL); Py_DECREF(args); if (res == NULL) - return CMPERROR; + return -1; if (!PyInt_Check(res)) { Py_DECREF(res); PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "comparison function must return int"); - return CMPERROR; + return -1; } i = PyInt_AsLong(res); Py_DECREF(res); - if (i < 0) - return -1; - if (i > 0) - return 1; - return 0; + return i < 0; } /* MINSIZE is the smallest array that will get a full-blown samplesort @@ -850,17 +835,21 @@ docompare(PyObject *x, PyObject *y, PyObject *compare) exactly in two. */ #define STACKSIZE 60 - -#define SETK(X,Y) if ((k = docompare(X,Y,compare))==CMPERROR) goto fail +/* Compare X to Y via islt(). Goto "fail" if the comparison raises an + error. Else "k" is set to true iff X<Y, and an "if (k)" block is + started. It makes more sense in context <wink>. X and Y are PyObject*s. +*/ +#define IFLT(X, Y) if ((k = islt(X, Y, compare)) < 0) goto fail; \ + if (k) /* binarysort is the best method for sorting small arrays: it does few compares, but can do data movement quadratic in the number of elements. [lo, hi) is a contiguous slice of a list, and is sorted via - binary insertion. + binary insertion. This sort is stable. On entry, must have lo <= start <= hi, and that [lo, start) is already sorted (pass start == lo if you don't know!). - If docompare complains (returns CMPERROR) return -1, else 0. + If islt() complains return -1, else 0. Even in case of error, the output slice will be some permutation of the input (nothing is lost or duplicated). */ @@ -869,12 +858,12 @@ static int binarysort(PyObject **lo, PyObject **hi, PyObject **start, PyObject *compare) /* compare -- comparison function object, or NULL for default */ { - /* assert lo <= start <= hi - assert [lo, start) is sorted */ register int k; register PyObject **l, **p, **r; register PyObject *pivot; + assert(lo <= start && start <= hi); + /* assert [lo, start) is sorted */ if (lo == start) ++start; for (; start < hi; ++start) { @@ -884,8 +873,7 @@ binarysort(PyObject **lo, PyObject **hi, PyObject **start, PyObject *compare) pivot = *r; do { p = l + ((r - l) >> 1); - SETK(pivot, *p); - if (k < 0) + IFLT(pivot, *p) r = p; else l = p + 1; @@ -906,7 +894,7 @@ binarysort(PyObject **lo, PyObject **hi, PyObject **start, PyObject *compare) /* samplesortslice is the sorting workhorse. [lo, hi) is a contiguous slice of a list, to be sorted in place. On entry, must have lo <= hi, - If docompare complains (returns CMPERROR) return -1, else 0. + If islt() complains return -1, else 0. Even in case of error, the output slice will be some permutation of the input (nothing is lost or duplicated). @@ -1023,8 +1011,7 @@ samplesortslice(PyObject **lo, PyObject **hi, PyObject *compare) */ /* assert lo < hi */ for (r = lo+1; r < hi; ++r) { - SETK(*r, *(r-1)); - if (k < 0) + IFLT(*r, *(r-1)) break; } /* [lo,r) is sorted, [r,hi) unknown. Get out cheap if there are @@ -1036,8 +1023,7 @@ samplesortslice(PyObject **lo, PyObject **hi, PyObject *compare) benchmark-driven silliness <wink>. */ /* assert lo < hi */ for (r = lo+1; r < hi; ++r) { - SETK(*(r-1), *r); - if (k < 0) + IFLT(*(r-1), *r) break; } if (hi - r <= MAXMERGE) { @@ -1192,8 +1178,7 @@ samplesortslice(PyObject **lo, PyObject **hi, PyObject *compare) do { /* slide l right, looking for key >= pivot */ do { - SETK(*l, pivot); - if (k < 0) + IFLT(*l, pivot) ++l; else break; @@ -1202,8 +1187,7 @@ samplesortslice(PyObject **lo, PyObject **hi, PyObject *compare) /* slide r left, looking for key < pivot */ while (l < r) { register PyObject *rval = *r--; - SETK(rval, pivot); - if (k < 0) { + IFLT(rval, pivot) { /* swap and advance */ r[1] = *l; *l++ = rval; @@ -1219,8 +1203,7 @@ samplesortslice(PyObject **lo, PyObject **hi, PyObject *compare) everything to the right of r is >= pivot */ if (l == r) { - SETK(*r, pivot); - if (k < 0) + IFLT(*r, pivot) ++l; else --r; @@ -1249,8 +1232,7 @@ samplesortslice(PyObject **lo, PyObject **hi, PyObject *compare) */ while (l < hi) { /* pivot <= *l known */ - SETK(pivot, *l); - if (k < 0) + IFLT(pivot, *l) break; else /* <= and not < implies == */ @@ -1290,7 +1272,7 @@ samplesortslice(PyObject **lo, PyObject **hi, PyObject *compare) return -1; } -#undef SETK +#undef IFLT static PyTypeObject immutable_list_type; |