Python 2 times slower than Perl

[Christopher A. Craig]

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Erno Kuusela <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> writes:

> if you put the code in a function, it will be a fair bit faster
> since global variable access is slower than local variable access.

This is, in this case, incorrect.  Unless I am horribly mistaken, the
higher cost of dealing with globals is that you first have to do a
failed lookup in the local dictionary.  (Plus failed lookups are more
expensive than successful ones)  

In this particular case the local dictionary is the same as the global
one, so I don't see how moving to a function would offer a time savings.

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Christopher A. Craig <com-nospam at ccraig.org>
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger.  Comedy is when you fall in an open
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