"km" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ya i am sorry i tried with an empty loop first and then one which emits > a value as the snippet. I have tested it on my machine and now ... > > 1) perl (v 5.8) does the job in 0.005 seconds > 2) but python (v 2.4.1) is horribly slow its 0.61 seconds. > and using range() instead of xrange() in python snippet, it not better , > it takes 0.57 seconds. just test it urself and see.
I did. "for x in xrange(10000000): pass" (cut and pasted, Python 2.2, 10 million passes) takes about 1.5 second (estimated by 'one thousand and one...' method). Divide by 10000 for your 1000 iteration test. > what more do i need to accept python is slow when it comes to loops > concept ? Valid comparitive data from honest and competant testers with different but properly functioning systems. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
