Counting CPU Instructions in Python - eviltoast
Did you know it takes about 17,000 CPU instructions1 to print("Hello") in Python? And that it takes ~2 billion of them to import seaborn? Since writting this I have upgraded Cirron to substract its own overhead; it now measures print at ~9,000 instructions. ↩

Did you know it takes about 17,000 CPU instructions to print(“Hello”) in Python? And that it takes ~2 billion of them to import a module?

  • flatbield@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Just remember that an optimized C program will run about 100x faster then a similar Python program in a compute bound problem. So yes Python is slow but often good enough.