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?

  • andnekon@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    I doubt it’s useful for performance evaluation, however, if you are writing a paper and want to compare your algorithm to an existing one, this can be handy