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Author	rhettinger
Recipients	rhettinger
Date	2011-03-29.00:22:27
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Message-id	<1301358147.85.0.729395241348.issue11707@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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For cases where the underlying comparison function is in C (strcoll for example), the pure Python dispatch in cmp_to_key dominates running time. This can be reduced considerably by writing cmp_to_key in C, making its overhead as low or lower than the cost of bound method dispatch.

For cases where the underlying comparison function is in C (strcoll for example), the pure Python dispatch in cmp_to_key dominates running time.  This can be reduced considerably by writing cmp_to_key in C, making its overhead as low or lower than the cost of bound method dispatch.

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