[Python-3000] C API for ints and strings (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 14:21:20 CEST 2007


On 11/09/2007, Nicholas Bastin <nick.bastin at gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/11/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote: > > 3.0: 10 loops, best of 3: 6.76 sec per loop > > 2.6: 10 loops, best of 3: 2.61 sec per loop > > I can't quite reproduce these results. On a 3.2GHz Pentium 4, > running Linux 2.6.21, gcc 4.1.3, I get > > 3.0: 10 loops, best of 3: 728 msec per loop > 2.6: 10 loops, best of 3: 558 msec per loop > > So it's only 30% slower, not 260%.

FWIW, I get

python -m timeit "import inttest; inttest.inttest2(5)" 10 loops, best of 3: 367 msec per loop

\Apps\Python30\python -m timeit "import inttest; inttest.inttest2(5)" 10 loops, best of 3: 810 msec per loop

That's on Windows XP, distributed binaries of Python 2.5 and 3.0a1. Processor speed: 1.7 GHz Processor type: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor

That's 120% slower (but against very different versions).

I guess this proves nothing much, apart from the fact that the test is wildly variable and as such probably not very valid :-)

Paul.



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