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Subject: Re: list comparison vs integer comparison, which is more efficient?
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On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:17 PM, austin aigbe <eshikafe@gmail.com> wrote:
> However, it took a shorter time (0.004s) with 24 function calls than your code (0.005s) which took just 13 function calls to execute.
>
> Why is this?

That looks to me like noise in your stats. One ULP in timing stats?
Not something to base *anything* on.

ChrisA