Surprising (for me) benchmark results...

[E. Mark Ping]

In article <m3y9sg90al.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>,
Michael Hudson  <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>emarkp at CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (E. Mark Ping) writes:
>
>[python beats c++, java, perl in micro-benchmark]
>> import time
>> 
>> start = time.time()
>> f = open("infile.txt", 'r')
>> out = open("outfile.txt", 'w')
>> l = f.readlines()
>> l.sort()
>  ^ this line would be my bet for why Python wins.  What sort did you
>use in the other languages?

In Perl and Java, the builtin sort, and in C++ std::sort.  Why would
you expect this to be best in Python?  I inserted timing for the sort,
and in Python (in the small case) it was about 180 ms, whereas in C++
it was about 140 ms.

>> out.writelines(l)
>> f.close()
>> out.close()
>> end = time.time()
>> 
>> print (end-start), " seconds"
>
>Still, a nice result.

Indeed.
-- 
Mark Ping                     
emarkp at soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU