[Tutor] Finding prime numbers script runs much faster when run via bash shell than idle
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Sat Apr 2 09:04:46 CEST 2011
Jaime Gago wrote:
> I wrote a simple piece of code as an exercise to an online -free- class
> that finds prime numbers. When I run it via IDLE it's taking way more time
> than if I run it via a (bash) shell (on Os X 10.6) while doing $>python -d
> mypp.py
>
> I'm really curious from a performance perspective as to what could cause
> such a noticeable difference.
Displaying text in Idle's Python Shell window has significant overhead
If you remove the line
> print prime_counter, 'found so far'
from your script it should take roughly the same time to run via bash and in
Idle.
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