On 2008-04-18 17:55:32 -0600, Ross Ridge 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> George Sakkis  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You'd better use a more precise timing method than finger counting,
>> such as timeit. Twice as fast is probably a gross overestimation; on
>> my box (Python 2.5, WinXP) avoiding unpack is around 10% and 40%
>> faster from Ross's and Grant's method, respectively:
> ...
>> def from3Bytes_ross(s):
>> return unpack(">l", s + "\0")[0] >> 8
> 
> If you have Python 2.5, here's a faster version:
> 
>       from struct import *
>       unpack_i32be = Struct(">l").unpack
> 
>       def from3Bytes_ross2(s):
>           return unpack_i32be(s + "\0")[0] >> 8
> 
>                                       Ross Ridge

That's not even intelligible.  I wanna go back to COBOL. :)

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