bit count or bit set && Python3

[Mark Lawrence]

On 25/10/2012 17:29, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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
>

Oh no, not another PEP 393 foul up :)

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Mark Lawrence.