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NelsonMinar on Aug 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sum of 1 to 1000000000 in different programming la...

And Python's integer type is gold-plated.

gshubert17 on Aug 6, 2013 [–]

Does that make pypy platinum?

time pypy -c "print sum(xrange(1000000001))"

is 2.0 seconds on my Mac; a C program with 8-byte ints (long or long long) takes 2.6 seconds.

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