Bill Mill wrote: > Unlikely; 2 people have confirmed these results already. > > I did find, though, that if I remove all print statements from the > program, the dummy and non-dummy variable versions take indentical > time. Can others reproduce this?
Yes, it's obviously a real effect given the other sightings. I don't see any speed difference, myself (Pentium IV 3.0 GHz running Slackware Linux). -- 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
