Performance penalty for using classes?

[Neil Hodgson]

Steve Holden wrote:
 >>>long iterations = 1000000;
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> [...]
> [Python]
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>>>        iterations = 100000
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> [...]
> 
> Yes, it's an unfortunate discrepancy between the Python and C code that the
> latter runs ten times as many tests :-(

    It is bugs like this that make adding some optional punctuation to 
numbers a good idea. As in Ada:
iterations = 1_000_000
    or for any Indians:
iterations = 100_0000

    Neil