The Cost of Dynamism (was Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?)

[BartC]

On 12/03/2016 15:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 2:12 AM, BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:

>> However, I was going to revise my benchmark to use strings instead of
>> integers, to show how much slower they would be. But the program was 10%
>> faster with strings!

>> So there's something funny going on. Either string operations are super-fast
>> or integer operations are somehow crippled. Or maybe there so many other
>> overheads, that the difference between strings and ints is lost.

> Or maybe they're all actually *object* comparisons,

Yeah, that explains it!

  and what you know
> about assembly language has no relationship to what's going on here.
> This is why we keep advising you to get to know *Python*,

I'm not sure /my/ knowing Python better is going to help it get any faster.

I discovered something that might be a clue to what's going on, but 
you're content to just brush it under the carpet.

OK.

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Bartc