Is Python really slow?
Kiyo Kelvin Lee
kiyolee*remove* at ctimail.com
Sun May 28 20:01:13 EDT 2000
If you want fast for this kind of do-nothing loop, why not simply remove the
loop.
If you want somekind of delay, why not using those time-delay functions.
Reminded that Python is interpreted language and C is compiled language.
Actually, some smart C compiler will remove this kind of do-nothing loop
during optimization.
Kiyo
"Alexander" <alecdem at mit.edu> wrote in message
news:392F8286.13371C4E at mit.edu...
> Hi
>
> I have implemented loop in Python
>
> for k in xrange(1,100000000):
> pass
>
> and the same one in C
> for ( i = 0 ; i < 1e8; i++ ) ;
>
> and the second one seems to be working hundreds of times faster than the
> first one
>
> Can I do anything with that.
>
> Thank you
>
>
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