Python and STL efficiency

[Mc Osten]

Tim N. van der Leeuw <tim.leeuwvander at nl.unisys.com> wrote:

> I have to admit to a stupid mistake, for which I feel quite ashamed - I
> got the loop-size wrong in the Python code. So all Python results
> posted by me were off by a factor of 10 :-(
> I feel quite bad about that!

Well, this makes *my* results quite surprising.
I checked it threetimes. I loop 1000000 times in both Python and C++,
and Python here is faster.

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