Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Dustan wrote: > > > Obviously it takes a geek to know you have to time it, as opposed to > > any other task you could be talking about. > > wasn't the original question "my program uses a lot of CPU, and I want > to make it more efficient" ? what does "a lot of CPU" and "more > efficient" mean to you, and how do you know that your program uses "a > lot of CPU" ?
The task manager says "CPU Usage: 100%" when the program is running, and only when the program is running. Efficiency is a measure of 2 things: CPU usage and time. If you measure just time, you're not necessarily getting the efficiency. > > </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
