From: Vincent Foley <vinfoley@...>
Date: 2002-09-23T23:44:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Speed up suggestions

In my experience, Python is faster than Ruby.  I made a small script to
help me do crossword puzzles.  The first thing I do, is open a
dictionary file and put it in memory:

Ruby: _wordList = open('/home/vince/fr_dict.txt', 'r').read.split('\n')
Python: _wordList = (open('/home/vince/fr_dict.txt', 'r').read()).split('\n')

Same thing really. Here are the outputs of time:
Ruby:
ruby/crosswords.rb  1.52s user 0.13s system 68% cpu 2.407 total

Python:
python/crossword.py  0.52s user 0.07s system 31% cpu 1.875 total

Python went over that file much more quickly.  Maybe my technique for
opening a file in Ruby could be accelerated, but I think that the speed
of the Python interpreter is just greater than that of Ruby, that's all.

Vince

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