Message 259568 - Python tracker

>> But it is faster. That's visible on many benchmarks. Even simple
> timeit oneliners can show that. Probably it's because that such
> benchmarks usually combine floats and ints, i.e. "2 * smth" instead of
> "2.0 * smth".
> 
> So it's not about FP-related calculations anymore. It's about ints
> having become slower ;-)

I should have written 2 * smth_float vs 2.0 * smth_float