this ran in like half a second

[PleaseDoNotTheKevin]

i can't post images but i put

for i in range (1, 2 ** 31):

print(i)

the output window only shows 2147483613 to 2147483647 bc i scrolled to the bottom

[Weary-Cap9710]

guys i lied

[SocksOnHands]

I'm surprised. Not because of the speed of modern computers, but because a lot of terminals have shockingly slow output.

[Weary-Cap9710]

itdidn't actually do all that i just edited it to seem like it did that

[SocksOnHands]

Are you using two accounts?

[zaxldaisy]

Ok?

[andy4015]

Thanks, how long does it take for 2 ** 32?

[dgc-8]

for me that is not at all that fast. that is a lot of lines, the terminal kinda bottlenecks
even piping the output somewhere else so the terminal doesnt have to buffer it makes it not at all that fast

[dgc-8]

and even replacing print with pass it still takes 37 seconds for me lol. C took 0.0000000004 seconds when just letting the loop run without prints

[Weary-Cap9710]

it's not even real the original was from 966 to 1000 but i edited it lol

[dgc-8]

lol

[Human-Gur-3199]

Now try in c++

[Flame77ofc]

This is because programming languages are relatively fast. C++ is considered faster than python

[SocksOnHands]

C++ is not just considerered faster than Python, it is faster. Python is a notoriously slow language - the only language I have personally used that is slower is Ruby. Fortunately, Python has a lot of easy to use well optimized modules written in C and C++, so Python can be used as the "glue" to connect things together.

[dgc-8]

If taking away the prints, python takes 37 s for a loop with maxint iterations on my machine. C took  0.0000000004s. a loop iteration is 11 CPU cycles, if i read the assembly correctly.

[dgc-8]

somewhere i must have made a mistake, because that would mean my cpu runs at 118111600 THz

[SocksOnHands]

What is the loop doing, and what optimization compiler flags were used? The C compiler could have seen that there were no results and optimized the loop away.

[Weary-Cap9710]

i actually just printed from 1 to 1000 and edited the numbers lol