Surprising (for me) benchmark results...

[Michael Hudson]

emarkp at CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (E. Mark Ping) writes:

[python beats c++, java, perl in micro-benchmark]
> import time
> 
> start = time.time()
> f = open("infile.txt", 'r')
> out = open("outfile.txt", 'w')
> l = f.readlines()
> l.sort()
  ^ this line would be my bet for why Python wins.  What sort did you
use in the other languages?

> out.writelines(l)
> f.close()
> out.close()
> end = time.time()
> 
> print (end-start), " seconds"

Still, a nice result.

Cheers,
M.

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