That's what I suspected when reading the first part of the post where it states that heapq.merge() is slower than sort(). Hmm, isn't it comparing Apple to Oran

That's what I suspected when reading the first part of the post where it states that heapq.merge() is slower than sort(). Hmm, isn't it comparing Apple to Orange since heapq.merge() is implement in Python and the system sort() would be in C?