9thbit · October 12, 2011 16:48
diff --git a/gistfile1.txt b/gistfile1.txt
 # Benchmarks for popping from a list
 # If you want to always pop the first element of a list, then don't use pop(0)
 # Instead reverse the list once and use pop.

 python -m timeit "a=range(1000000)" "a.reverse()" "while a: a.pop()"
 python -m timeit "a=range(1000000)" "while a: a.pop(0)"
	# Benchmarks for popping from a list
	# If you want to always pop the first element of a list, then don't use pop(0)
	# Instead reverse the list once and use pop.

	python -m timeit "a=range(1000000)" "a.reverse()" "while a: a.pop()"
	python -m timeit "a=range(1000000)" "while a: a.pop(0)"