Language Shootout

[David C. Ullrich]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:49:49 -0700, Jeff Shannon <jeff at ccvcorp.com>
wrote:

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>"David C. Ullrich" wrote:
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>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:47:30 GMT, bokr at accessone.com (Bengt Richter)
>> wrote:
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>> >[18:47] C:\pywk\fib>strL.py str  10L**20899
>> >str took 13.601617 seconds
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>> >[18:47] C:\pywk\fib>strL.py strL 10L**20899
>> >strL took  1.044989 seconds
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>> >Recursion rides again ;-)
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>> Recursive or not, the idea that we can write
>> a replacement for str that's faster is very
>> curious.
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>How much of this difference in speed, though, is because strL()
>is a special purpose integer->string conversion, where the
>standard str() is a general-purpose anything->string conversion?

Surely almost none of it! I don't know anything about the
internal representation of Python objects, but I tend to
doubt it takes more than a tick or two for str() to determine
that the argument is a long and call the appropriate
long->string code.

>Jeff Shannon
>Technician/Programmer
>Credit International
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David C. Ullrich