On Jan 31, 1:23 pm, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote:
> [Mark]
> > power operation. The integer -> float conversion is probably quite
> > significant, timewise.
>
> I bow to your superior intuition!
Here's another timing that shows the significance of the int -> float
conversion: (non-debug build of the trunk)
>>> t1 = timeit.Timer("x = n**power", "n =
>>> 4021503534212915433093809093996098953996019232; power = 1./13")
>>> t2 = timeit.Timer("x = n**power", "n =
>>> 4021503534212915433093809093996098953996019232.; power = 1./13")
>>> t1.timeit()
0.34778499603271484
>>> t2.timeit()
0.26025009155273438
I've got a patch posted to the tracker somewhere that improves
the accuracy of long->float conversions, while also speeding them
up a tiny bit (but not a lot...).
Mark
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