Python 2 times slower than Perl

[Christopher A. Craig]

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Mark Day <mday at apple.com> writes:

> and not the multiplication.  I don't think Python will evaluate the
> expression at "compile" time, nor move the assignment outside the loop.

I can't speak for Perl, but Python definately does not evaluate the 
expression at compile time.  This is a problem I've had with Python.
I wish that when given the -O option the compiler would do constant
subexpression elimination.  

That said I created a Perl program that does $j *= 2.5 instead and it
still beat Python handsomely (on a Ultra 10).  I expect this is
because of the cost of dealing with so many Python object
creations/deletions which I've found can be quite a bit higher that C
entities.

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Christopher A. Craig <com-nospam at ccraig.org>
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