Surprising (for me) benchmark results...

[E. Mark Ping]

In article <mailman.988753443.30791.python-list at python.org>,
William Park  <parkw at better.net> wrote:
>Did the time for Java/C++/Perl include only for sorting as for Python
>case, or for the entire process run (ie. time sh -c 

I'm confused.  The Python code I posted checked the time before
opening the files and after closing them.  That pretty much guarantees
that the IO time is included, right?  (In the longer case, I used my
watch to make sure the numbers agreed.)

All the code snippets had timing code inside which reported the total
time from start to finish (though I would assume that the overhead in
loading the environment, etc. isn't included).
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Mark Ping                     
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