On 8/25/05, Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Dickinson wrote: > > > Questions: > > > > (1) Can anyone else reproduce this behaviour, or is it just some quirk > > of my setup? > > (2) Any possible explanations? Is there some optimization that kicks > > in at a certain number of lines, or at a certain length of > > bytecode? > > (3) If (2), is there some way to force the optimization, so that I can > > get the speed increase without having to add the extra lines? > > I see no difference in execution times, as expected. The most likely > explanation is simply that other things were going on on your system > when you ran the first test, but not the second test, resulting in the > discrepancy. In other words, the speed change had nothing to do with > your dummy lines. >
Unlikely; 2 people have confirmed these results already. I did find, though, that if I remove all print statements from the program, the dummy and non-dummy variable versions take indentical time. Can others reproduce this? I'm Investigating further... Peace Bill Mill bill.mill at gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list