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We've come a long way. Python isn't even the fastest of languages
$ time python3.6 -c "import random; l = random.choices(range(1_000_000), k=2_000); l.sort()" real 0m0.033s
We've come a long way. Python isn't even the fastest of languages
... and this also takes into account creating the 2k random ints.