Python is darn fast (was: How fast is Python)

[Simon Burton]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:31:15 +0100, John J. Lee wrote:

> Irmen de Jong <irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVETHIS-xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
>> P at draigBrady.com wrote:
>> 
...
>> but Python+Psyco still wins :-)
> 
> So, the interesting part is: why?
> 
> 
> John

My suspicion is that when psyco looks at erfc, it
finds that nothing changes and so replaces the
function call with the resulting number (am i right? it's the
same each time?). This is what a "specializing compiler"
would do, me thinks. So, try using a different number
with each call.

Simon.