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I was trying to compare performance of two statements with timeit, and the results are something like:
100 loops, best of 3: 100 ns per loop
100 loops, best of 3: 1.96 us per loop
But I don’t know what these ns and us stands for, so I don’t know which one is faster.
ns stands for nanoseconds. n is the regular SI prefix meaning 10-9. us means microseconds. In SI that would be µs (10-6 seconds) – the u is used because there’s not a µ in ASCII, but it does look pretty similar. In your case, that means you’re comparing 100×10-9 seconds against 1.96×10-6 seconds – the former is almost 20× faster.