Is divmod() faster than using the % and // operators?
To measure is to know (all timings on a Macbook Pro 2.8Ghz i7): >>> import sys, timeit >>> sys.version_info sys.version_info(major=2, minor=7, micro=12, releaselevel=”final”, serial=0) >>> timeit.timeit(‘divmod(n, d)’, ‘n, d = 42, 7’) 0.1473848819732666 >>> timeit.timeit(‘n // d, n % d’, ‘n, d = 42, 7’) 0.10324406623840332 The divmod() function is at a disadvantage here because … Read more