generators : random shootout
Mark McEahern
marklists at mceahern.com
Fri Jan 11 17:28:57 EST 2002
David Eppstein
> You don't think it's suspicious that they both take an amount of
> time with so many zeros at the end? To me, it looks like they both
> take one least-measurable-unit of time. You need to try again with
> much larger counts to get any useful information out of the experiment.
Excellent point, thanks!
# the generator method
$ gen2.py 1000000
81.465763603
11.446000 seconds.
# the "old" method
$ gen.py 1000000
81.465763603
6.610000 seconds.
So the old method is faster.
// mark
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