Speed quirk: redundant line gives six-fold speedup

[Erik Max Francis]

Bill Mill wrote:

> Unlikely; 2 people have confirmed these results already.
> 
> I did find, though, that if I remove all print statements from the
> program, the dummy and non-dummy variable versions take indentical
> time. Can others reproduce this?

Yes, it's obviously a real effect given the other sightings.  I don't 
see any speed difference, myself (Pentium IV 3.0 GHz running Slackware 
Linux).

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