Kristján Valur Jónsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
I am sorry for not doing my research about the age of the compatibility
fix.
However, modifying the test slightly to work with tuples of
(random.random(), random.random())
shows a performance increase from:
heapify 0.366187741738
pus
Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
The compatability code was just added in Py2.6 and is needed for apps
like Twisted that currently rely on __le__ being tested. In 3.0, the
compatability code is removed and full speed is restored.
Also, the timing suite exaggerates the ef
New submission from Kristján Valur Jónsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Comparing _heapq with our own legacy C implementation, blue.heapq at
CCP, I noticed that ours was somewhat faster.
I discovered that a lot of effort is being spent to dynamically search
for a __lt__ operator, to provide backwards c
