My python program executes faster than my java version of the same program. What gives?
问题 Update: 2009-05-29 Thanks for all the suggestions and advice. I used your suggestions to make my production code execute 2.5 times faster on average than my best result a couple of days ago. In the end I was able to make the java code the fastest. Lessons: My example code below shows the insertion of primitive ints but the production code is actually storing strings (my bad). When I corrected that the python execution time went from 2.8 seconds to 9.6. So right off the bat, the java was