[Pythonmac-SIG] One last thing on the slow shell python

David Pennell dpennell@guardnet.com
Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:03:13 -0700


I created a tcsh to call pyton -c 'pass' 100 times and 1000 times.

Over the control of a simple $I = 999 line, the python -c 'pass' line 
took 1.7 seconds, each execution - 100 executions took almost 3 minutes.

So this is a big problem if one is going to include python steps in a 
shell.