Dustan wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > Dustan wrote: > > > > > Obviously it takes a geek to know you have to time it, as opposed to > > > any other task you could be talking about. > > > > wasn't the original question "my program uses a lot of CPU, and I want > > to make it more efficient" ? what does "a lot of CPU" and "more > > efficient" mean to you, and how do you know that your program uses "a > > lot of CPU" ? > > The task manager says "CPU Usage: 100%" when the program is running, > and only when the program is running. > > Efficiency is a measure of 2 things: CPU usage and time. If you measure > just time, you're not necessarily getting the efficiency. > > > > > </F>
By the way, I've only been programming for a year or so (probably 18 months at the most). I'm sure that can't label me as a 'newbie', but at least consider that before you criticize me like you did when I asked about scientific notation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list