From: Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T02:30:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Speed up suggestions


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

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

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

This way shows ruby a tad faster:

% time ruby -e "_wordList = open('/usr/share/dict/words', 'r').readlines"
        0.21 real         0.18 user         0.03 sys

% time python -c "_wordList = (open('/usr/share/dict/words', 'r').read()).split('\n')"
        0.25 real         0.21 user         0.02 sys
        
but these are not identical since the ruby version now has the "\n" on
the end of each string.  IO.read_and_chomp_lines() would be nice to have.

-joe