On Nov 12, 2009, at 3:11 AM, Richard Tew wrote:
Interesting. I hadn't gone to the effort of writing it yet. I
expected the difference between a compiled language and a scripting
language to be more significant.
Oh ye of little faith! CPython is a byte-compiled language, not pure
scripting language, and with many years spent optimizing it. I did a
simple benchmark of Python 2.6 against Python 0.9p1 and there was a
4.5x speedup in that time for the following:
import time
x = range(10000)
y = range(10000)
t1 = time.time()
for a in x:
for b in y:
pass
t2 = time.time()
print t2-t1
Andrew
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