Mark Dickinson wrote: > Questions: > > (1) Can anyone else reproduce this behaviour, or is it just some quirk > of my setup? > (2) Any possible explanations? Is there some optimization that kicks > in at a certain number of lines, or at a certain length of > bytecode? > (3) If (2), is there some way to force the optimization, so that I can > get the speed increase without having to add the extra lines?
I see no difference in execution times, as expected. The most likely explanation is simply that other things were going on on your system when you ran the first test, but not the second test, resulting in the discrepancy. In other words, the speed change had nothing to do with your dummy lines. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis There never was a good war or a bad peace. -- Benjamin Franklin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
