George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You'd better use a more precise timing method than finger counting,
>such as timeit. Twice as fast is probably a gross overestimation; on
>my box (Python 2.5, WinXP) avoiding unpack is around 10% and 40%
>faster from Ross's and Grant's method, respectively:
...
>def from3Bytes_ross(s):
> return unpack(">l", s + "\0")[0] >> 8
If you have Python 2.5, here's a faster version:
from struct import *
unpack_i32be = Struct(">l").unpack
def from3Bytes_ross2(s):
return unpack_i32be(s + "\0")[0] >> 8
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