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?

  • Eager EagleEnglish
    8•4 months ago

    so 200 to 800 microseconds on a modern cpu? Fast enough.