reduce vs. for loop

[Steven Majewski]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

>
> On 26-Mar-2002 m2 at plusseven.com wrote:
> >
> > Just out curiosity,
> > why is fact2 a bit faster than fact1?
> >
> > def fact1(n):
> >     return reduce (operator.mul, range(1L,n + 1))
> >
>
> bigger problem here.  fact2 returns a long, fact1 returns an integer.  So
> fact1(100) fails.
>


	reduce(operator.mul, range(1,n+1), 1L )

 fixes that, but it's even slower.

-- Steve Majewski