Question

IPython 中用 magic 命令 %timeit 来计时。

比较生成速度

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%timeit [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25]

1000000 loops, best of 3: 456 ns per loop

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%timeit (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25)

10000000 loops, best of 3: 23 ns per loop

可以看到，元组的生成速度要比列表的生成速度快得多，相差大概一个数量级。

比较遍历速度

产生内容相同的随机列表和元组：

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from numpy.random import rand
values = rand(10000,4)
lst = [list(row) for row in values]
tup = tuple(tuple(row) for row in values)

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 %timeit for row in lst: list(row)

100 loops, best of 3: 4.12 ms per loop

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%timeit for row in tup: tuple(row)

100 loops, best of 3: 2.07 ms per loop

在遍历上，元组和列表的速度表现差不多。

比较遍历和索引速度：

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%timeit for row in lst: a = row[0] + 1

The slowest run took 12.20 times longer than the fastest. This could mean that an intermediate result is being cached 
100 loops, best of 3: 3.73 ms per loop

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%timeit for row in tup: a = row[0] + 1

100 loops, best of 3: 3.82 ms per loop

元组的生成速度会比列表快很多，迭代速度快一点，索引速度差不多。