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Mark Dickinson 3e4caeb3bf Issue #5341: Fix a variety of spelling errors. 2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 5a51bf50b8 typo fix 2006-08-01 16:24:30 +00:00
Skip Montanaro acb1424106 The key to the various sort columns got lost. Pulled from
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-July/026876.html
2005-09-23 17:14:22 +00:00
Tim Peters 3ddb856ed1 Fixed new typos, added a little info about ~sort versus "hint"s. 2002-08-10 07:04:01 +00:00
Tim Peters e05f65a0c6 1. Combined the base and length arrays into a single array of structs.
This is friendlier for caches.

2. Cut MIN_GALLOP to 7, but added a per-sort min_gallop vrbl that adapts
   the "get into galloping mode" threshold higher when galloping isn't
   paying, and lower when it is.  There's no known case where this hurts.
   It's (of course) neutral for /sort, \sort and =sort.  It also happens
   to be neutral for !sort.  It cuts a tiny # of compares in 3sort and +sort.
   For *sort, it reduces the # of compares to better than what this used to
   do when MIN_GALLOP was hardcoded to 10 (it did about 0.1% more *sort
   compares before, but given how close we are to the limit, this is "a
   lot"!).  %sort used to do about 1.5% more compares, and ~sort about
   3.6% more.  Here are exact counts:

 i    *sort    3sort    +sort    %sort    ~sort    !sort
15   449235    33019    33016    51328   188720    65534  before
     448885    33016    33007    50426   182083    65534  after
      0.08%    0.01%    0.03%    1.79%    3.65%    0.00%  %ch from after

16   963714    65824    65809   103409   377634   131070
     962991    65821    65808   101667   364341   131070
      0.08%    0.00%    0.00%    1.71%    3.65%    0.00%

17  2059092   131413   131362   209130   755476   262142
    2057533   131410   131361   206193   728871   262142
      0.08%    0.00%    0.00%    1.42%    3.65%    0.00%

18  4380687   262440   262460   421998  1511174   524286
    4377402   262437   262459   416347  1457945   524286
      0.08%    0.00%    0.00%    1.36%    3.65%    0.00%

19  9285709   524581   524634   848590  3022584  1048574
    9278734   524580   524633   837947  2916107  1048574
      0.08%    0.00%    0.00%    1.27%    3.65%    0.00%

20 19621118  1048960  1048942  1715806  6045418  2097150
   19606028  1048958  1048941  1694896  5832445  2097150
      0.08%    0.00%    0.00%    1.23%    3.65%    0.00%

3. Added some key asserts I overlooked before.

4. Updated the doc file.
2002-08-10 05:21:15 +00:00
Tim Peters b80595f44a The samplesort-vs-mergesort #-of-comparisons comparisons were captured
before %sort was introduced.  Redid them (the numbers change, but the
conclusions don't).  Also did the samplesort counts with the released
2.2.1, as they're slightly different under the last CVS 2.3 samplesort
(some higher, some lower -- CVS had been changed to stop doing the
special-case business on recursive samplesort calls).
2002-08-10 03:04:33 +00:00
Tim Peters 671764beb0 Repaired a braino in the description of bad minrun values. 2002-08-09 05:06:44 +00:00
Tim Peters 6c511e6d1c Added info about highwater heap-memory use for the sortperf.py tests; + a
couple of minor edits elsewhere.
2002-08-08 01:55:16 +00:00
Tim Peters 92f81f2e63 Checking in the doc file for "timsort". There's way too much here to
stuff into code comments, and lots of it is going to be useful again (but
hard to predict exactly which parts of it ...).
2002-08-01 00:59:42 +00:00