The Question : 849 people think this question is useful This piece of code in Python runs in (Note: The timing is done with the time function in BASH in Linux.) However, if the for loop isn’t placed within a function, then it runs for a much longer time: Why is this? The Question Comments
The Question : 1917 people think this question is useful I wanted to compare reading lines of string input from stdin using Python and C++ and was shocked to see my C++ code run an order of magnitude slower than the equivalent Python code. Since my C++ is rusty and I’m not yet an expert
The Question : 866 people think this question is useful The following Java program takes on average between 0.50 secs and 0.55 secs to run: If I replace 2 * (i * i) with 2 * i * i, it takes between 0.60 and 0.65 secs to run. How come? I ran each version of
The Question : 890 people think this question is useful How do you write (and run) a correct micro-benchmark in Java? I’m looking for some code samples and comments illustrating various things to think about. Example: Should the benchmark measure time/iteration or iterations/time, and why? Related: Is stopwatch benchmarking acceptable? The Question Comments : See
