Udyant Wig wrote: > I implemented this -> http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/lisp/Hanoi.lisp in > both flavors of Python: 2.6.2 and 3.0.1 (CPython) > > The code: > #!/usr/bin/env python > def remaining_peg (peg1, peg2): > return (6 - peg1 - peg2) > > def hanoi (num_discs, start, end): > if (1 == num_discs): > print "Top of peg {0} to peg {1}".format(start,end) # used > print() > for Py 3.0.1 > > else: > hanoi ((num_discs - 1), start, (remaining_peg (start, end))) > hanoi (1, start, end) > hanoi ((num_discs - 1), (remaining_peg (start, end)), end) > > > hanoi(20,2,3) > > The times: real usr sys > Python 2.6.2 7.994s 3.336s 3.296s > Python 3.0.1 55.302s 38.024s 5.876s > > What happened to Python?
Have you tried Python 3.1? Have you made sure that both Python interpreters were build with the same compiler arguments and that none of them is a debug build? Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list