Thanks everyone.<div><br></div><div>Well, I've added a timer to the code and I'm running it from my house. I'm getting the same times here from both laptops which I didn't expect at all. I guess I'll have to take my linux laptop to work and see what my tests produce there.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And as an FYI, my windows laptop is actually much more capable than my linux laptop.</div><div>Linux is an IBM Thinkpad T61</div><div>Windows is an Alienware M11x R2( i7 with 4gb of ram)</div><div><br>
</div><div>Thanks again.</div><div>Tony</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@pearwood.info">steve@pearwood.info</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">Tony Pelletier wrote:<br>
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So, my question is. Why is it running so much faster on linux? Is it the<br>
way that linux is handling the socket? Does windows open and close it<br>
whereas linux might leave it open and just pump data through?<br>
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Perhaps; you'll have to read the source code to see if there are differences in geopy, or in the code that it relies on. But I suspect you *might* be seeing this bug:<br>
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<a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/python-dev@python.org/msg40692.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/<u></u>python-dev@python.org/<u></u>msg40692.html</a><br>
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It's a long thread, but the summary is: reading data over the Internet on Windows using some versions of Python is *sometimes* EXTREMELY slow compared to Linux or third party tools. This is due to a bug in the httplib module, which used a naive way of concatenating many little strings. Most of the time, Python has an optimization that can disguise how slow this is, but occasionally the optimization can fail.<div>
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Steven<br>
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