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diff --git a/Objects/listsort.txt b/Objects/listsort.txt index 139c17cf00..68e918d960 100644 --- a/Objects/listsort.txt +++ b/Objects/listsort.txt @@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ Comparison with Python's Samplesort Hybrid  + Here are exact comparison counts across all the tests in sortperf.py,    when run with arguments "15 20 1". +  Column Key: +      *sort: random data +      \sort: descending data +      /sort: ascending data +      3sort: ascending, then 3 random exchanges +      +sort: ascending, then 10 random at the end +      ~sort: many duplicates +      =sort: all equal +      !sort: worst case scenario +    First the trivial cases, trivial for samplesort because it special-cased    them, and trivial for timsort because it naturally works on runs.  Within    an "n" block, the first line gives the # of compares done by samplesort,  | 
