bearophile: > That version is easy to translate to other languages and you can > probably find that Psyco makes it much faster still.
That operation is quite common, so it deserves a bit more work: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/543271 (I can show you the D/C code if you want it. The C code is just for testing, while the D code is usable). The final sum: the Psyco version is almost 40 times faster than the Python version, and just 2.8 times slower than the D version, and 3.4 times slower than a C version (that doesn't use too many pointer tricks). I think this is good enough. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
