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| author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2005-09-23 17:14:22 (GMT) |
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| committer | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2005-09-23 17:14:22 (GMT) |
| commit | acb142410628c5ad3803bd3c7a2ca28165a951fe (patch) | |
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The key to the various sort columns got lost. Pulled from
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-July/026876.html
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diff --git a/Objects/listsort.txt b/Objects/listsort.txt index 139c17c..68e918d 100644 --- a/Objects/listsort.txt +++ b/Objects/listsort.txt @@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ Comparison with Python's Samplesort Hybrid + Here are exact comparison counts across all the tests in sortperf.py, when run with arguments "15 20 1". + Column Key: + *sort: random data + \sort: descending data + /sort: ascending data + 3sort: ascending, then 3 random exchanges + +sort: ascending, then 10 random at the end + ~sort: many duplicates + =sort: all equal + !sort: worst case scenario + First the trivial cases, trivial for samplesort because it special-cased them, and trivial for timsort because it naturally works on runs. Within an "n" block, the first line gives the # of compares done by samplesort, |