Fastest way to retrieve and write html contents to file

[Michael Torrie]

On 05/02/2016 01:37 AM, DFS wrote:
> So python matches or beats VBScript at this much larger file.  Kewl.

If you download something large enough to be meaningful, you'll find the
runtime speeds should all converge to something showing your internet
connection speed.  Try downloading a 4 GB file, for example.  You're
trying to benchmark an io-bound operation.  After you move past the very
small and meaningless examples that simply benchmark the overhead of the
connection building, you'll find that all languages, even compiled
languages like C, should run at the same speed on average.  Neither VBS
nor Python will be faster than each other.

Now if you want to talk about processing the data once you have it,
there we can talk about speeds and optimization.