Dick Moores wrote: > At 04:33 AM 10/12/2006, Kent Johnson wrote: >> Looking at the code and your numbers, my guess is that the time to make >> a Python function call on your computer is about 2 microseconds (20 msec >> / 10000). (I mean the entire overhead - looking up the function and >> actually calling it.) > > Hm. Does this test include the entire overhead? > > C:\>python -m timeit -r 3 -s"from random import random" "random()" > 10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.157 usec per loop
I don't know why that one is faster. Maybe because it is calling a function in C, or because there are no arguments? Someone else will have to answer that. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
