From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-02-07T03:54:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Fastest way to iterate over a range in steps

Interesting, I am getting different results:

  Rehearsal --------------------------------------------------
  while           12.880000   0.010000  12.890000 ( 13.000285)
  succ            51.880000   0.000000  51.880000 ( 52.045592)
  range step      10.760000   3.700000  14.460000 ( 14.518478)
  step            10.520000   3.740000  14.260000 ( 14.255010)
  ---------------------------------------- total: 93.490000sec

                       user     system      total        real
  while           13.110000   0.000000  13.110000 ( 13.111040)
  succ            52.650000   0.000000  52.650000 ( 52.654402)
  range step      10.820000   3.650000  14.470000 ( 14.465861)
  step            10.380000   3.850000  14.230000 ( 14.233755)

I had to drop a 0 off LI for my platform. I'm guessing you are running
1.9.2? My results are for 1.8.7.