[Python-Dev] PEP 471 (scandir): Poll to choose the implementation (full C or C+Python)

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 13:27:04 +0200
Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13.02.15 12:07, Victor Stinner wrote:
> > * C implementation: scandir is at least 3.5x faster than listdir, up
> > to 44.6x faster on Windows
> 
> Results on Windows was obtained in the becnhmark that doesn't drop disk 
> caches and runs listdir before scandir.

Well, that's the point. The objective here is to speed up Python, not
the hard drive.

Regards

Antoine.