[issue44080] Bias in random.choices(long_sequence)

[Dennis Sweeney]

Dennis Sweeney <sweeney.dennis650 at gmail.com> added the comment:

Your suspicion looks correct, random() is faster:

.\python.bat -m pyperf timeit -s "from random import choices" "choices(range(100), k=10_000)"

Before int_choices.diff: Mean +- std dev: 1.49 ms +- 0.09 ms
After int_choices.diff:  Mean +- std dev: 3.50 ms +- 0.33 ms

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keywords: +patch
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file50028/int_choices.diff

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