At 14:33 21/09/2005, you wrote: >At the cost of roughly doubling the complexity of the code (19 lines instead >of ten lines in the function body), I was able to improve the performance by >a factor of more than 6500, while basically still using the same >"brute-force" approach of guessing a number, adjusting the guess by a delta, >and noticing which number gets the lowest error.
Psyco also makes a very noticeable difference: Without: Slow method -- result: 1.61803406588 time: 1.40232660855 seconds Faster method -- result: 1.6180333003 time: 0.000200135212716 seconds 2 digits more precision -- result: 1.61803398295 time: 0.000242882824493 seconds With psyco.full() Slow method -- result: 1.61803406588 time: 0.256314531595 seconds Faster method -- result: 1.6180333003 time: 3.65800681372e-005 seconds 2 digits more precision -- result: 1.61803398295 time: 4.53755994128e-005 second -- Maple Design - quality web design and programming http://www.mapledesign.co.uk _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
