Mark Dickinson wrote: > Questions: > (1) Can anyone else reproduce this behaviour, or is it just some quirk > of my setup?
yes. I get 7 sec vs 1 sec on my laptop. > (2) Any possible explanations? Is there some optimization that kicks > in at a certain number of lines, or at a certain length of > bytecode? I don't think there are any optimizations at play here. > (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? When I start a python interpreter and import the module the speed difference disappears and it actually gets about two times faster. YMMV. I don't have a solution but I admire the problem. [1] ... jay [1] Google tells me that this is probably attributable to Ashleigh Brilliant. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
