File handling summary (was newbie question...)...

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <386D127F.3840BEE7 at earthlink.net>,
Alexander Sendzimir  <sendzimir at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>All measurements are over 100 runs. Each run timed using GNU time.

Try time.time() next time.  ;-)  (That will make sure you factor out the
Python loading time.)

>I won't make any claims to the accuracy of these numbers. I'm
>exercising my new found Python muscles more than anything. However, I
>find it interesting that providing a hint to readlines() does seem to
>cause less time in the kernel.

I'll guess that this has to do with memory allocation.
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