Dan thank you so much. Indeed you solved it and thanks for your advice
about the micro-benchmarks
too.

Sincerely,

Shubha

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Dan Kortschak <
dan.kortsc...@adelaide.edu.au> wrote:

> When the python functions are actually called the comparison is more
> reasonable:
>
> ```
> ~/concat $ go test -bench . concat_test.go
> BenchmarkUnicodeConcat-8          200000             10379 ns/op
> PASS
> ok      command-line-arguments  2.193s
> ~/concat $ python concat_test.py
> time_taken = 8901.3030529 nsec
>
> ~/concat $ python3 concat_test.py
> time_taken = 7210.201049922034 nsec
> ```
>
> This involved appending "; concat()" and "; mysetup()" to the stmt and
> setup parameters.
>
> On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 19:03 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Shubha Ramani <shubharam...@gmail.co
> > m> wrote:
> > >
> > > mysetup is being called here:
> > >
> > > times = timeit.Timer(stmt="from __main__ import
> > > concat",setup="gc.enable();from __main__ import
> > > mysetup").repeat(7,loops)
> > >
> > > Look at "from __main__ import mysetup" after gc.enable();
> > > gc,enable()
> > > according to timeit rules needs to be called
> > > before the setup function. Are you saying Ian that I only import
> > > but never
> > > call mysetup() ? Perhaps you are right but I followed examples and
> > > this is
> > > what I thought was correct (maybe not).
> > I added print statements to the Python functions and they never
> > printed.  I don't know whether that proves anything or not.
> >
> > Your micro-benchmarks are suspicious because they don't exist.  It
> > would take very little for the compiler to simply discard all the
> > computation.  I'm actually surprised that does not happen with the Go
> > compiler--seems like a minor bug.  I wonder whether the Python
> > interpreter is doing that one way or another.
> >
> > You should always write a micro-benchmark to compute a real result
> > and
> > verify that the result is what you expect.  Otherwise a clever
> > compiler will completely defeat the purpose of the benchmark.
> >
> > Ian
> >
>

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