Python slow for filter scripts

[Stan Graves]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message news:<VVCnb.370402$R32.12250533 at news2.tin.it>...
> It really depends on what you're doing.  I tried the following:

Me too!  

I ran these on a hp-ux 11.00 box.  The input was a 560K html file that
I had laying around.

Overall, python was about 3 times slower than perl...and remarkable
consistant for the three different methods.

stang at ettin$ ll ./print.html
-rw-r--r--   1 stan       users        567154 Oct 29 10:30
./print.html
stang at ettin$ time cio.pl < ./print.html > /dev/null

real    0m0.10s
user    0m0.06s
sys     0m0.03s
stang at ettin$ time cio.pl < ./print.html > /tmp/test

real    0m0.18s
user    0m0.06s
sys     0m0.04s
stang at ettin$ time cio.py 1 < ./print.html > /dev/null

real    0m0.85s
user    0m0.30s
sys     0m0.11s
stang at ettin$ time cio.py 1 < ./print.html > /tmp/test

real    0m0.45s
user    0m0.29s
sys     0m0.11s
stang at ettin$ time cio.py 2 < ./print.html > /dev/null

real    0m0.76s
user    0m0.64s
sys     0m0.11s
stang at ettin$ time cio.py 2 < ./print.html > /tmp/test

real    0m0.81s
user    0m0.64s
sys     0m0.12s
stang at ettin$ time cio.py 3 < ./print.html > /dev/null

real    0m0.43s
user    0m0.16s
sys     0m0.10s
stang at ettin$ time cio.py 3 < ./print.html > /tmp/test

real    0m0.33s
user    0m0.17s
sys     0m0.12s
stang at ettin$

--Stan Graves
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