bit count or bit set && Python3

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:17 AM, rusi <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 25, 8:57 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve
> +comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> py> min(t.repeat(number=10000, repeat=7))
>> 0.6819710731506348
>> py> min(t.repeat(number=100, repeat=7))
>> 4.141788959503174
>>
>> That makes the "inelegant" solution using bin() and count() about 600
>> times faster than the mathematically clever solution using bitwise
>> operations.
>
> You meant 600% I think?

It took six times longer to do one hundredth the iterations.

ChrisA