Entering a very large number

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-03-25, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> On 25/03/2018 02:47, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> The Original Poster (OP) is concerned about saving, what, a tenth of a
>> microsecond in total? Hardly seems worth the effort, especially if you're
>> going to end up with something even slower.
>
> Using CPython on my machine, doing a string to int conversion that 
> specific number took 200 times as long as doing a normal assignment.
>
> That conversion took 4 microseconds.
>
> Not significant if it's only done once. But it might be executed a 
> million times.

Which adds up to 4 seconds.

Still not worth spending hours (or even a few minutes) to optimize.

-- 
Grant