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Re: Bug in timsort!?

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On 25/02/15 15:33, Chris Angelico wrote:

> It's even worse than that. Unless you have a list of 2**49 references
> to the same few objects, you're going to need to have some actual
> content for each one. The absolute best you could do is to sort
> integers, which would take 32 bytes each [1]; if you're sorting
> strings, they'll be 90 bytes each, so the integers are our best bet.
> So add another *five* powers of two to the RAM requirements.

In that case you also need to add the PyObject_HEAD overhead for each 
object. ;-)

Sturla

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  Re: Bug in timsort!? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 10:33 +1100
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  Re: Bug in timsort!? Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 14:58 +0100
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