Fastest way to retrieve and write html contents to file
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Mon May 2 02:05:35 EDT 2016
On Monday 02 May 2016 15:00, DFS wrote:
> I tried the 10-loop test several times with all versions.
>
> The results were 100% consistent: VBSCript xmlHTTP was always 2x faster
> than any python method.
Are you absolutely sure you're comparing the same job in two languages? Is
VB using a local web cache, and Python not? Are you saving files with both
tests? To the same local drive? (To ensure you aren't measuring the
difference between "write this file to a slow IDE hard disk, write that file
to a fast SSD".)
Once you are sure that you are comparing the same task in two languages,
then make sure the measurement is meaningful. If you change from a (let's
say) 1 KB file to a 100 KB file, do you see the same 2 x difference? What if
you increase it to a 10000 KB file?
--
Steve
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