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Does anyone have any ideas for what's happening in the Python example? Could you post the Python code?

• ratsbane 19y ago
  Sure... here is maxval1.py: for i in range(1, 100000000/10): pass And here is maxval2.py: maxval=100000000/10 for i in range(1, maxval): pass
  • andreyf 19y ago
    Oh, of course - range() is evaluated once in either case. It returns an array, which is then stepped through. The time difference must have been just some inaccuracy. I guess 'time' isn't the best command to use to test efficiency ... or maybe try adding another 0?
    • ratsbane 19y ago
      Oh, thanks. I redid it using xrange instead of range and the numbers went down to an average (over 20 tries) of about 1.36 sec for maxval1 (which computes endpoint within the xrange) and 1.9 sec for maxval2 (which uses variable in xrange.)