code optimization (calc PI)

[mm]

Hmm... it's a question. It was not that easy to translate this #@*?%! 
C-Program into readable code and then to Python. But it works.

There are only two while-loops (a while within an other while).

I konw, that for example while-loops in Perl are very slow. Maybe this 
is also known in Pyhton. Then, I can translate the while-loops in to 
for-loops, for example.
More general, maybe there is a speed optimazation docu out there.

(Anyway, this code for C-calc is complex. And I realy don't understand 
it right now... 8-)


But anyway, there is not that much calculation, it has more something to 
do with the too while-loops. Here is some code:

(In general, it has basically nothing to do with PI-calc.)


c=2800  ## a counter


while c*2:
    ## do some calc. did not change c here.
    ...


    b=c  ## number of elements

    while (b-1):
       ## so some calc.
       ...
       b=b-1 ## just for while-loop condition.


   c = c-14;  ## this is code vor the 1st while-loop, BUT bust run after 
the 2nd-while-loop.
   pi = pi + str("%04d" % int(e + d/a))  ## this should be fast?! I dont 
know.


There are a output string, a list, and integers. No complex data 
structures; and no complex calculations.



Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

> mm wrote:
> 
> 
>>(Yes, I konw whats an object is...)
>>BTW. I did a translation of a pi callculation programm in C to Python.
>>(Do it by your own... ;-)
> 
> 
> Is that a question on how to optimize code you won't show us? If yes, I'm
> sorry to tell you that crystal balls are short these days. Too much
> new-year-outlooks.
> 
> Diez