slow Python 3.0 write performance?

[Mike Driscoll]

On Dec 5, 12:54 pm, Istvan Albert <istvan.alb... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could someone run the code below on both Python 2.5 and 3.0
>
> For me (on Windows) it runs over 7 times slower with Python 3.0
>
> import time
>
> lo, hi, step = 10**5, 10**6, 10**5
>
> # writes increasingly more lines to a file
> for N in range(lo, hi, step):
>     fp = open('foodata.txt', 'wt')
>     start = time.time()
>     for i in range( N ):
>         fp.write( '%s\n' % i)
>     fp.close()
>     stop = time.time()
>     print ( "%s\t%s" % (N, stop-start) )

Ran on Windows XP virtual machine:

3.0 output:

100000	0.889999866486
200000	1.79699993134
300000	2.875
400000	3.73399996758
500000	4.71899986267
600000	5.59400010109
700000	7.04699993134
800000	7.31299996376
900000	8.375


2.5.2 output:

100000	0.156000137329
200000	0.296999931335
300000	0.640000104904
400000	0.640000104904
500000	0.78200006485
600000	0.952999830246
700000	1.13999986649
800000	1.25
900000	1.42199993134

Slowness in this exercise is confirmed on Windows XP.

Mike