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Performance is a subset of Optimization: performance is the goal when you want the execution time of your program or routine to be optimal.

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A Merge Sort implementation for efficiency

From an optimization perspective, you can't totally avoid copying for mergesort (i.e. modify the list fully in place). What you can do, which should help, is generate one new list once using generator …
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