Feb. 13, 2015
12:25 p.m.
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:07:03 +0100 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:
* C implementation: scandir is at least 3.5x faster than listdir, up to 44.6x faster on Windows * C+Python implementation: scandir is not really faster than listdir, between 1.3x and 1.4x faster
So amusingly, the bottleneck is not so much the cost of system calls, but the cost of Python wrappers around system calls. Regards Antoine.