Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: > On 2/18/2013 2:13 PM, John Immarino wrote: >> I coded a Python solution for Problem #14 on the Project Euler >> website. I was very surprised to find that it took 107 sec. to run >> even though it's a pretty simple program. I also coded an equivalent >> solution for the problem in the old MSDOS basic. (That's the 16 bit >> app of 1980s vintage.) It ran in 56 sec. Is there a flaw in my >> coding, or is Python really this slow in this particular application. >> MSDOS Basic usually runs at a snails pace compared to Python. > > I find this surprising too. I am also surprised that it even works, > given that the highest intermediate value is about 57 billion and I do > not remember that Basic had infinite precision ints.
That may explain why the Basic version is faster: it gets overflow and then it may have taken some shortcuts. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@vanoostrum.org> WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
