On 6/7/2015 10:23 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
Before you go any further, can you just try this script, please, and
see how long it takes to run?
import random, time
startTime = time.time()
for i in range(50000000):
pass
print '\n', time.time() - startTime
I know, seems a stupid thing to try, right? But you're using Python 2,
as evidenced by the print statements, and that means that range() is
constructing a 50M element list. It's entirely possible that that's a
significant part of your time - allocating all that memory, populating
it, and then disposing of it at the end (maybe).
PS Z:\projects\programming\python\basic_games\fastdice> python
test_random_time.py
4.84700012207
So... I'm not looking at the problem on the Python side in the correct way?
In particular, I'm using the wrong container type?
I was thinking "array" (like the Cython version) when I put the Python
script together. I got an error message at one point about indexing the
"list" that threw me off for a while. Since it looks like an array,
walks like an array, and quack likes array, I fixed the indexing problem
like an array. A list != array? :)
Chris R.
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