From: fatjim at home.com (Jim Meier)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:25:28 GMT
Subject: Python too slow for real world
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"Magnus L. Hetland" wrote:

> Joseph Robertson <jmrober1 at ingr.com> writes:
> > This way you can create views on your data without actually trying to load it
> > all.  The tradeoff of course is memory for fileaccess time, but I found
> > fileaccess to be faster than doing all the work 'up front'.
>
> Hm. Yes.
>
> If the size (in lines) of the records is constant, then you could, of
> course, use seek to skip all the data while processing as well...

Of course, if you were really SERIOUS about finishing the project quickly, you
could ignore "seek" and just skip processing the data at all...

*shy grin*
-Jim