import timeit, operator from decimal import Decimal def test(t, op): [op(t(214.12),t(214.12)) for x in range(100)] def mid(ti): res = [ ti.timeit(100) for x in range(10) ] return sum(res)/len(res) ops = [operator.add, operator.sub, operator.mul, operator.div] types = [int, long, float, complex] results = [] tnames = {int:'int ', long:'long ',float:'float ', Decimal:'decimal', complex:'complex'} onames = {operator.add:'+', operator.sub:'-', operator.mul:'*', operator.div:'/'} print('Working...') for t in types: for op in ops: ti = timeit.Timer((lambda: test(t, op))) results.append( [tnames[t], onames[op], mid(ti)] ) m = min(results, key=lambda x: x[2])[2] print "Data Type\tOp\tVisualisation" for result in results: print result[0],'\t',result[1],'\t','#'*int(m/result[2]*40)