It is faster mainly because of the startup time of the python interpreter. You can improve performances using the "-S" on the python interpreter. I get inconsis

It is faster mainly because of the startup time of the python interpreter. You can improve performances using the "-S" on the python interpreter. I get inconsistent results with time, I think maybe because of context switching as stated here [1]. See my results here: http://pastebin.com/HMUErzee http://pastebin.com/HMUErzee 1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9006596/is-the-unix-time-command-accurate-enough-for-benchmarks http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9006596/is-the-unix-time-...