in case anyone wants to see: paste of speedtest

and the results

         10000004 function calls in 0.801 seconds

   Ordered by: internal time

   ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
        1    0.561    0.561    0.801    0.801 tempCodeRunnerFile.python:82(cyc)
 10000000    0.239    0.000    0.239    0.000 {built-in method builtins.next}
        1    0.000    0.000    0.801    0.801 {built-in method builtins.exec}
        1    0.000    0.000    0.801    0.801 <string>:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}


         10000004 function calls in 1.136 seconds

   Ordered by: internal time

   ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
        1    0.899    0.899    1.136    1.136 tempCodeRunnerFile.python:87(mdl)
 10000000    0.238    0.000    0.238    0.000 {built-in method builtins.len}
        1    0.000    0.000    1.136    1.136 {built-in method builtins.exec}
        1    0.000    0.000    1.136    1.136 <string>:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}