IronPython vs CPython: faster in 1.6 times?

[Istvan Albert]

On Feb 5, 4:56 pm, Arnaud Delobelle <arno... at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Could it be because .NET doesn't have arbitrary length integer types
> and your little benchmark will  create lots of integers > 2**32 ?
> What is the result if you replace foo(a) with

> def foo(a): return sqrt(a)

Good observation, in the case above the run times are about the same.

i.