Fastest way to retrieve and write html contents to file

Mon May 2 02:05:35 EDT 2016

On Monday 02 May 2016 15:00, DFS wrote:

> I tried the 10-loop test several times with all versions.
> 
> The results were 100% consistent: VBSCript xmlHTTP was always 2x faster
> than any python method.

Are you absolutely sure you're comparing the same job in two languages? Is 
VB using a local web cache, and Python not? Are you saving files with both 
tests? To the same local drive? (To ensure you aren't measuring the 
difference between "write this file to a slow IDE hard disk, write that file 
to a fast SSD".)

Once you are sure that you are comparing the same task in two languages, 
then make sure the measurement is meaningful. If you change from a (let's 
say) 1 KB file to a 100 KB file, do you see the same 2 x difference? What if 
you increase it to a 10000 KB file?

-- 
Steve