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Counting CPU Instructions in Python (blog.mattstuchlik.com)
submitted 10 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/python@programming.dev
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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?

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[-] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 months ago

Ahh...that makes sense. I bet you're right.

[-] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

People use Python a lot as a Matlab, Excel/VBA, or R alternative. That was my use for many years. Some of these are compute focused problems and if the dataset is large enough and the computations complex enough then speed can be an issue.

As far as loading packages and printing. Who cares. These are not computationally intensive and are typically IO bound.

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