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Re: Bug in timsort!?

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Date Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:07:52 +1100
Subject Re: Bug in timsort!?
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Skip Montanaro
<skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Even if/when we get to the point where machines can hold an array of
> 2**49 elements, I suspect people won't be using straight Python to
> wrangle them.

Looking just at CPython, what is the absolute minimum storage space
for a massive list like that? My guess is that a 64-bit CPython might
get as good as eight bytes per element; playing around with smaller
figures (up to circa a million elements) shows it ranging from 8 to 9
bytes per element, bottoming out at just a smidge over 8, presumably
at the moments when there's no slack space (there's a fixed overhead,
which gets diminishingly significant). So an array of 2**49 elements
would take 2**52 bytes (4 petabytes) of storage - addressable, to be
sure, but an awful lot to be sorting.

Would it be sufficient to stick a comment into the source saying "This
may have problems with lists in excess of 2**49 elements", and leave
it until that's actually likely to happen?

ChrisA

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  Re: Bug in timsort!? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-24 21:49 +0000
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  Re: Bug in timsort!? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 10:33 +1100
  Re: Bug in timsort!? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-02-24 23:38 +0000
  Re: Bug in timsort!? Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-02-24 17:50 -0600
  Re: Bug in timsort!? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 11:07 +1100
    Re: Bug in timsort!? Paddy <paddy3118@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 01:10 -0800
      Re: Bug in timsort!? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 21:11 +1100
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  Re: Bug in timsort!? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-25 16:55 +0000
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