Implementing file reading in C/Python

[John Machin]

On Jan 9, 9:56 pm, mk <mrk... at gmail.com> wrote:

> The factor of 30 indeed does not seem right -- I have done somewhat
> similar stuff (calculating Levenshtein distance [edit distance] on words
> read from very large files), coded the same algorithm in pure Python and
> C++ (using linked lists in C++) and Python version was 2.5 times slower.

Levenshtein distance using linked lists? That's novel. Care to
divulge?

And if C++ is using linked lists and Python isn't, it's not really the
same algorithm, is it?

Cheers,
John