Bitshifts and "And" vs Floor-division and Modular

[jimbo1qaz]

On Thursday, September 6, 2012 5:30:05 PM UTC-7, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 07/09/2012 01:01, jimbo1qaz wrote:
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> > Is it faster to use bitshifts or floor division? And which is better, & or %?
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> > All divisors and mods are power of 2, so are binary operations faster? And are they considered bad style?
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> Why don't you use the timeit module and find out for yourself?
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> Cheers.
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> Mark Lawrence.

How do I use it? timeit.timer is not defined.