[Python-Dev] Joys of Optimization

Robert Brewer fumanchu at amor.org
Fri Mar 12 11:11:50 EST 2004


Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> In case you haven't been watching, we've been improving the
> heck out of looping, list operations, and list comprehensions.
> 
> Here is one of the scoresheets:
> 
> python timeit.py "[i for i in xrange(1000)]"
> py2.4   0.56 msec
> py2.3   1.16 msec
> py2.2   1.45 msec

Watching and loving every minute of it. Thanks for your pursuit of
these!


FuManChu



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