[Tutor] question about run time

[Kent Johnson]

Ertl, John wrote:
> I have been using python for sometime...and occasionally I noticed
> significant delay before the code would run but unitl now I have been able
> to write it off to other things.  Now I have a short script that I wrote to
> check some files and print out a few lines.
> 
> I have noticed that usually the first time I fire it up in the morning or
> after a long time of not running it, it takes 10-15 seconds to run and the
> output to the screen is very slow...maybe 1 second per line.  If I run it
> soon after that it runs and the output is on the screen in less then a
> second.  I would think this has to do with compiling but I am not sure.  Any
> ideas how to speed this up?  

Compiling is not that slow. Are you files huge? Possibly they are in the 
disk cache after the first run.

Kent