Felipe Almeida Lessa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I love benchmarks, so as I was testing the options, I saw something very > strange: > > $ python2.4 -mtimeit 'x = range(100000); ' > 100 loops, best of 3: 6.7 msec per loop > $ python2.4 -mtimeit 'x = range(100000); del x[:]' > 100 loops, best of 3: 6.35 msec per loop > $ python2.4 -mtimeit 'x = range(100000); x[:] = []' > 100 loops, best of 3: 6.36 msec per loop > $ python2.4 -mtimeit 'x = range(100000); del x' > 100 loops, best of 3: 6.46 msec per loop > > Why the first benchmark is the slowest? I don't get it... could someone > test this, too?
I get similar behaviour. No idea why. $ python2.4 -mtimeit 'x = range(100000); ' 100 loops, best of 3: 6.99 msec per loop $ python2.4 -mtimeit 'x = range(100000); del x[:]' 100 loops, best of 3: 6.49 msec per loop $ python2.4 -mtimeit 'x = range(100000); x[:] = []' 100 loops, best of 3: 6.47 msec per loop $ python2.4 -mtimeit 'x = range(100000); del x' 100 loops, best of 3: 6.6 msec per loop Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
