From: gminick <gminick@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T03:06:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Speed up suggestions

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:30:01AM +0900, Joseph McDonald wrote:
> % 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.
You're not fair ;> As I said in other post, python also has readlines 
method, and it works faster than read/split method.

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