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Re: Benchmark Python vs Euphoria.

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Jan 06, 2006
• 536 views

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:53:35 -0800, Jean-Francois Soucaille
<guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:

>With Python, loops are 'while' based rather 'for' based for avoiding the range
>function overhead.
While these are most likely "near enough", I somehow doubt they
actually do the same job:
>
>#####Python code
>    S=0.
>    while n<20:
>        S=S+increment
>        increment=increment*x/n
>        n=n+1

>######Euphoria code
>	 sum=1.0
>        for i=1 to 20 do
>                delta=delta*x/i
>                sum+=delta
>        end for

No biggie, I would bet my house on your timings being within 1%, erm
make that 10%, but it is important to be certain to compare like for
like. S/sum start with different values, delta/increment is calculated
before rather than after being added to sum/S, and it looks to me like
the Python loop is one shorter (< rather than <=), though different
start values probably cause the same results to be given.

Yes, I know it doesn't really matter, my apologies for nit-picking.

Regards,
Pete