Stefan Behnel added the comment: > there are three ingredients here - sum, (x)range and the integer addition > that sum will be performing at each iteration.
... not to forget the interpreter startup time on his machine. :) I did a tiny bit of profiling and about 90% of the time seems to be spent creating and deallocating throw-away PyLong objects. My guess is that it simply lacks a free-list in _PyLong_New(). ---------- nosy: +scoder _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24076> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
