On 4/26/2011 3:27 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
     for 0<= i<  10000000:
          x *= 0.8
          #x += 0.01
      print x

In my WinXP (Athlon), 3.2 standard install

x=1.0
print(x)
for i in range(10000000):
      x *= 0.8
      x += 0.01
print(x)

takes about 3 1/2 secs with addition commented out and about 4 when included as above, which is about what I would expect.

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Terry Jan Reedy

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