About Python execution speed

[Chris Rebert]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Leonardo Giordani
<leonardo.giordani at treuropa.com> wrote:
<top-level module code snipped>
> which runs in about 80 seconds on my local hardware (mean of multiple
> execution)
> If I move the whole code into a function and call this latter the execution
> time drops to about 45 seconds.
>
> What is the reason of this improvement?

The top-level module namespace (i.e. global scope) is implemented
using a dictionary (i.e. hash table).
Names in local function scope instead use precalculated offsets into an array.
The latter is faster than the former, hence the speed difference.

Cheers,
Chris
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