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diff --git a/Objects/listsort.txt b/Objects/listsort.txt index fef982f..17d2797 100644 --- a/Objects/listsort.txt +++ b/Objects/listsort.txt @@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ search doesn't reduce the quadratic data movement costs. But in CPython's case, comparisons are extraordinarily expensive compared to moving data, and the details matter. Moving objects is just copying -pointers. Comparisons can be arbitrarily expensive (can invoke arbitary +pointers. Comparisons can be arbitrarily expensive (can invoke arbitrary user-supplied Python code), but even in simple cases (like 3 < 4) _all_ decisions are made at runtime: what's the type of the left comparand? the type of the right? do they need to be coerced to a common type? where's the |