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msaunders
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9 years ago
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Python speed

I have found python to be extremely slow in test complete. I have created some timing tests iterating over arrays and doing actions with the array data. I also wrote the exact same code and ran it ...
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  • msaunders's avatar
    msaunders
    9 years ago

    Support said this is just speed within the api and can't say much more. They said it has gotten faster over time so maybe will get better in the future but for now there is not much one can do to speed it up.

    We are going to move highs speed routines out of test complete for now as it seems like the better plan.

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msaunders
Contributor
9 years ago

Good point I think I accounted for that by having the timer only around the action not the entire function. Maybe python time.time does something I don't expect.

 

I believe I am ignoring the 2-3 seconds it takes before the test even starts. I consider that time acceptable but iteration on an array to be almost 1 second seems pretty slow. 

 

def test_timing():
    print("starting")
    start_num = time.time()
    numbers = create_permuted_ints(100)
    made_num = time.time()
    for i in range(50):
        for j in range(100):
            numbers[j] = (2 * numbers[j]) % 10000
    end_num = time.time()
    dt6 = int((made_num - start_num) * 1000)
    dt7 = int((end_num - start_num) * 1000)
    print(dt6)
    print(dt7)
    print("done")