How to make this unpickling/sorting demo faster?

[Paddy]

On Apr 17, 6:15 pm, Steve Bergman <sbergma... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm involved in a discussion thread in which it has been stated that:
>
> """
> Anything written in a language that is > 20x slower (Perl, Python,
> PHP) than C/C++ should be instantly rejected by users on those grounds
> alone.
> """
>
THe above is applied slavishly by those who value machine time over
peoples time. Do you want to work with them?

- Paddy.