July 21, 2015
4:44 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower@microsoft.com> wrote:
If text formatting is your bottleneck, congratulations on fixing your network, disk, RAM and probably your users.
Thank you, but one of my servers just spent 18 hours loading 10GB of XML data into a database. Given that CPU was loaded 100% all this time, I suspect neither network nor disk and not even RAM was the bottleneck. Since XML parsing was done by C code and only formatting of database INSERT instructions was done in Python, I strongly suspect string formatting had a sizable carbon footprint in this case. Not all string formatting is done for human consumption.