Why is subtraction faster than addition in Python?

I can reproduce this on my Q6600 (Python 2.6.2); increasing the range to 100000000: (‘+=’, 11.370000000000001) (‘-=’, 10.769999999999998) First, some observations: This is 5% for a trivial operation. That’s significant. The speed of the native addition and subtraction opcodes is irrelevant. It’s in the noise floor, completely dwarfed by the bytecode evaluation. That’s talking about … Read more

git add multiple files at once

How to add multiple files with different extensions to git all at one time… You can add to git by explicitly listing each file with spaces as delimiters. $ git add file-name-1.php file-name-2.js file-name-3.html … The accepted answer is perfect for the OP’s specific case. But I got here—via Google—needing to add multiple files with … Read more

Null values of Strings and Integers in Java

Your code makes use of two different additive operators. The first three lines use string concatenation, whereas the last one uses numeric addition. String concatenation is well-defined to turn null into “null”: If the reference is null, it is converted to the string “null” (four ASCII characters n, u, l, l). Hence there is no … Read more

Is integer multiplication really done at the same speed as addition on a modern CPU?

Multiplication of two n-bit numbers can in fact be done in O(log n) circuit depth, just like addition. Addition in O(log n) is done by splitting the number in half and (recursively) adding the two parts in parallel, where the upper half is solved for both the “0-carry” and “1-carry” case. Once the lower half … Read more

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