On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 5:16 AM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > On 16/04/2017 20:00, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:43 AM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > > >> Sure! If all you care about is winning benchmarks, > > > The benchmarks should be about comparing things. But they have to be like > for like.
You're the one who suggested using a formula to calculate the sum of a sequence of integers. > But it was OK for Steve to 'win' the benchmark by substituting my test > code with something only vaguely related, and much simpler? Steven was, far as I can tell, reimplementing the same algorithm in more Pythonic code. But I'm not sure. I didn't look at the details. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list