From: tismer at appliedbiometrics.com (Christian Tismer)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:27:03 GMT
Subject: Python too slow for real world
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"Steven D. Majewski" wrote:
...
> My guess would be that a difference this big is due to the file
> buffering mode.

This seems to be true.
After removing line I/O at all and doing some optimization,
the Python program now runs more than twice as fast than
the Perl version on my Linux box.
Although unfair, since I would have to optimize the latter
as well :-)

ciao - chris

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