where python is slower?

[Anders J. Munch]

"Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Enrique Palomo wrote:
> > At job, i must work with great size text files (up to 2 Gb)
>    ...
> > I would like to know where python is slower, reading files, writing, 
> > string manipulation...
> 
> There was a thread recently on parsing huge files.  It's titled
> "looking for speed-up ideas" and started by Ram Bhamidipaty on
> 2003/Feb/03 .
> 
> The fasted combination of grep/sort was 8 seconds but only gave a
> minimal solution.  The fastest complete solution, in Python, was about
> 16 seconds.  The slowest ones were a bit over 30 seconds.
> 
> That means Python isn't as slow as you might think.

It means that none of us wanted to do the hard work involved in
writing the much faster C++ version.

- Anders