Python 2 times slower than Perl

[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:05:24AM -0700, Xu, C.S. wrote:

> Interesting is for perl: On the same PII 450 MHz, "for" loop
> in stead of "while" loop increase about 10% speed, but on another
> PIII 1GHz, "for" slowes down speed by 30% (from 8 seconds of
> "while" to 10.6 seconds of "for"). Only computers themselves
> can understand, :-(

Are you sure you're using the same version of Python on both machines ? 

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