Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?

[BartC]

On 08/03/2016 01:12, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 08/03/2016 01:00, BartC wrote:
>>
>> If your efforts manage to double the speed of reading file A, then
>> probably the reading file B is also going to be improved! In practice
>> you use a variety of files, but one at a time will do.
>>
>
> What is the difference in your timing when you first read the file, and
> then read it a second time when it's been cached by the OS?  In other
> words, you are probably measuring more of the response time of the disk
> than the code that does the reading, hence making your figures useless.
>

It's not going to be significant. My hard drive is going to read at, 
what, 100MB per second? Probably more.

One test file is 0.2MB. Load time is going to be negligible whether 
cached or not.

The Python timing for that file is around 20 seconds, time enough to 
read 10000 copies from the disk.

And a C program reads /and decodes/ the same file from the same disk in 
between 0.1 and 0.2 seconds.

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Bartc