Python is darn fast (was: How fast is Python)

[Lawrence Oluyede]

 P at draigBrady.com wrote:

> If you want to try different machines
> then http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/gcccpuopt will give
> you the appropriate machine specific gcc options to use.

Very cool script, thanks :) Anyway it didn't change so much with erf.c

$ time ./erf
 
real    0m0.190s
user    0m0.157s
sys     0m0.001s

$ time ./erfCPU
 
real    0m0.180s
user    0m0.146s
sys     0m0.002s

erfCPU is compiled with the flags suggested by gcccpuopt script:

$ gcccpuopt
 -march=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse -msse -mmmx -m3dnow

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