Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Some microbenchmark results on 32-bit Linux:
$ ./python -m timeit -s "from random import getrandbits" -- "getrandbits(64)" Before: 1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.41 usec per loop After: 1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.34 usec per loop $ ./python -m timeit -s "from random import getrandbits" -- "getrandbits(2048)" Before: 100000 loops, best of 3: 5.84 usec per loop After: 100000 loops, best of 3: 5.61 usec per loop $ ./python -m timeit -s "from random import getrandbits" -- "getrandbits(65536)" Before: 10000 loops, best of 3: 145 usec per loop After: 10000 loops, best of 3: 137 usec per loop ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23488> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
