Performance penalty for using classes?
Steve Holden
sholden at holdenweb.com
Wed Jan 15 15:42:21 EST 2003
"André Jonsson" <tatsujin at despammed.com> wrote ...
> Seems to me that the C program is almost 10 times faster...
>
[...]
[C]
> > long iterations = 1000000;
[...]
[Python]
> > iterations = 100000
[...]
Yes, it's an unfortunate discrepancy between the Python and C code that the
latter runs ten times as many tests :-(
but-let's-not-let-the-truth-stop-a-great-rumour-ly y'rs - steve
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