▲ 31 ▼ Counting CPU Instructions in Python (blog.mattstuchlik.com) submitted 2 years ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/python@programming.dev 19 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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?
[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Ahh...that makes sense. I bet you're right. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent