Entering a very large number
Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Sun Mar 25 11:47:22 EDT 2018
On 2018-03-25, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> On 25/03/2018 02:47, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> The Original Poster (OP) is concerned about saving, what, a tenth of a
>> microsecond in total? Hardly seems worth the effort, especially if you're
>> going to end up with something even slower.
>
> Using CPython on my machine, doing a string to int conversion that
> specific number took 200 times as long as doing a normal assignment.
>
> That conversion took 4 microseconds.
>
> Not significant if it's only done once. But it might be executed a
> million times.
Which adds up to 4 seconds.
Still not worth spending hours (or even a few minutes) to optimize.
--
Grant
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