On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:02:40 +0200, Michael Kreim wrote:
> I was comparing the speed of a simple loop program between Matlab and
> Python.
> imax = 1000000000
> a = 0
> for i in xrange(imax):
> a = a + 10
> print a
> Are there any ways to speed up the for/xrange loop?
Sure; the above can be reduced to just:
print imax * 10
;)
More seriously, if you're comparing against Matlab, you should look at
NumPy. If there's a reasonably direct approach using NumPy, it will be
much quicker than a Python "for" loop (in a sense, NumPy is a library of
useful "for" loops implemented in C).
Even a fairly indirect NumPy approach is often quicker than pure Python.
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