6:47 minutes to sort 2k items. We've come a long way. Python isn't even the fastest of languages $ time python3.6 -c "import random; l = random.choices(ran

6:47 minutes to sort 2k items. 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 ... and this also takes into account creating the 2k random ints.