Speed quirk: redundant line gives six-fold speedup
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Thu Aug 25 13:39:15 EDT 2005
Bill Mill wrote:
> Unlikely; 2 people have confirmed these results already.
>
> I did find, though, that if I remove all print statements from the
> program, the dummy and non-dummy variable versions take indentical
> time. Can others reproduce this?
Yes, it's obviously a real effect given the other sightings. I don't
see any speed difference, myself (Pentium IV 3.0 GHz running Slackware
Linux).
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