[issue4174] Performance optimization for min() and max() over lists

Raymond Hettinger report at bugs.python.org
Wed Oct 22 20:58:29 CEST 2008


Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

Not that excited about adding this much code for such a small speedup.

Also, the list can change size during iteration so the for-loop needs to
be changed to:

     for(i = 1; i<PyList_GET_SIZE(v); i++)

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