Speed of Python

[George Sakkis]

On Sep 7, 12:42 pm, "wang frank" <f... at hotmail.co.jp> wrote:

> Is my conclusion correct that Python is slower than matlab? Are there any
> way to speed it up?

Yes, use Numpy for any non trivial number-crunching task: http://numpy.scipy.org/.
Even if you don't, you can speed up the original function by ~25% if
you replace range() with xrange() and bind the log function to a local
variable:

def bench2(n):
    from math import log
    for i in xrange(n):
        for j in xrange(1000):
            m=j+1
            z=log(m)
            z1=log(m+1)
            z2=log(m+2)
            z3=log(m+3)
            z4=log(m+4)
            z5=log(m+5)
            z6=log(m+6)
            z7=log(m+7)
            z8=log(m+8)
            z9=log(m+9)
    return z9


HTH,

George