Python Programming Contest

[Brian Quinlan]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> I'm curious about the stability of your timing setup.  If you run your
> own version of fly.py several times with the same starting seed, how
> much variation do you see between runs?

There is very little variation (about 0.1%) but my solution is over an 
order of magnitude slower than some of the submissions that I've gotten. 
It is likely that the overhead of my timing code is significant when 
running your solution.

I may have to *slightly* revise my test code to get better results. I 
think that I can do so without changing the distribution of the random 
schedule so as not to be biased against some solutions.

Cheers,
Brian