On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 05:32:48PM -0800, Jonathan Gardner wrote: > Here at my job, Python gets no respect. > > A programmer here wanted to see which language among Python, Perl, and > Java was better. So he wrote a Python, perl, and Java version. Except > the Python version was 20x slower than the perl and Java versions. > > Well, luckily he asked around in our little Python group about what he > did wrong. He simply misindented a block of code, making it run 10x as > often as it needed to. With that one fix, it was running faster than > the Java and perl versions, about 2x as fast. A few other minor tweaks > made it run even faster. > > And we've been playing with different algorithms for soduku solutions. > I had it down to 27 ms to solve the puzzle. > A nice story to hear, did you measure how long each of the solutions took you to write (even if it was just a wrote translation of the same strategy)?
Is my math off or does 27ms mean 0.027 seconds? On my laptop (1.3GHz) an empty python program takes 10ms to run (0.010 secs). I ask out of vanity, my own solver takes .15 seconds to run (20 seconds for a 16x16 grid). -jackdied -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
