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| Date | 2011-04-09 02:12 +1000 |
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| From | Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method |
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On 04/09/11 01:08, Aahz wrote: > Actually, my take is that removing __cmp__ was a mistake. (I already > argued about it back in python-dev before it happened, and I see little > point rehashing it. My reason is strictly efficiency grounds: when > comparisons are expensive -- such as Decimal object -- __cmp__ is > faster.) I don't get you... why would sorting a list using __cmp__ be faster when comparisons are expensive?
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Re: Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method aahz@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) - 2011-04-08 08:08 -0700
Re: Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2011-04-09 02:12 +1000
Re: Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method aahz@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) - 2011-04-08 12:40 -0700
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