Tim N. van der Leeuw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And the results of IronPython (1.0rc2) are just in as well:
I can't test this one. > > And for Python 2.5: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/My Documents/Python > $ /cygdrive/c/Python25/python.exe SpeedTest.py > Begin Test > Number of unique string objects: 4 > so long... > What do you know > fool > chicken crosses road > Number of unique string objects: 400000 > so long... > What do you know > fool > chicken crosses road > Fast - Elapsed: 0.440619 seconds > Slow - Elapsed: 1.095341 seconds What the heck... you have a Cray, haven't you? $ /opt/misc/bin/python2.5 -O set_impl.py so long... What do you know fool chicken crosses road so long... What do you know fool chicken crosses road Elapsed: 1.300000 seconds Elapsed: 1.290000 seconds Yes... good optimizer work. The 'slow' code here is faster than the fast one. $ python -O set_impl.py so long... What do you know fool chicken crosses road so long... What do you know fool chicken crosses road Elapsed: 1.360000 seconds Elapsed: 3.800000 seconds > (Next step would be to create a VB version and a Java version of the > same program, oh and perhaps to try a version that would work with > Jython... perhaps somehow w/o the 'set') Ok. I can do the Java version. If I find a RealBasic Set class I can do it. However, I don't remember anything about VB6, and have done nothing with .Net. But I don't think it is that interesting. Java strings are immutable too: I expect it to outperform Python (unless Java Set class sucks). And I don't see the point of taking in VB. A good BASIC implentation is comparable with Pascal or C++ speedwise. (At least this results from Great Language Shootout and Free Basic). -- blog: http://www.akropolix.net/rik0/blogs | Uccidete i filosofi, site: http://www.akropolix.net/rik0/ | tenetevi riso e forum: http://www.akropolix.net/forum/ | bacchette per voi. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list