February 12th, 2020 at 5:37 AM
Actually, I wondered about this. It wouldn't make much of a difference. It literally records the current time (to the millisecond level) at the start of the script, and then records it as soon as it finds a palindrome. It only tests for the time maybe six or seven times throughout the whole script execution (which maybe adds up to about 0.1 seconds at most). In other words, it does add considerable time for very small tests, but once you start checking 7+ digits, it's neglible compared to the rest.
And what you've mentioned about rust has me wanting to try it. Python is absolutely not the language to be using for this sort of thing. Multithreading and PyPy helped, but it's still python.
Incidentally, I tried out Cython recently. It's python, but you simply have to declare your types for functions and variables. And boy, oh boy, is it faster. On the order of about 20 times faster. It might just be my go-to from here on out.
And what you've mentioned about rust has me wanting to try it. Python is absolutely not the language to be using for this sort of thing. Multithreading and PyPy helped, but it's still python.
Incidentally, I tried out Cython recently. It's python, but you simply have to declare your types for functions and variables. And boy, oh boy, is it faster. On the order of about 20 times faster. It might just be my go-to from here on out.
