Overflow exceptions are slow!

[Aahz]

In Python 2.2, compare the following two loops for speed:

print "Starting loop 1"
start = time.clock()
L1 = []
for i in loop:
    L1.append(1L * i * i)
end = time.clock()
print "Loop 1 took", end - start, "seconds"

print "Starting loop 2"
start = time.clock()
L2 = []
for i in loop:
    L2.append(i * i)
end = time.clock()
print "Loop 2 took", end - start, "seconds"
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