Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: > I think it mostly says divisions are not so evil as you think they might > be.
They are bignum divisions which are much more expensive than machine divisions. And it's not just the divisions, it's also the number of iterations through the whole loop. And the Python 2 vs Python 3 difference is still unexplained. > PS Note that you're being "wasteful" by multiplying c*c over and over Yeah this is a reasonable point, though most of the c's should fit in a machine word, at least in my 64-bit system. I think Python still separates ints and longs in the implementation. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
