Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Indeed. If I replace the file with f = io.BytesIO(open("tst", "rb").read()) timings are divided by 20...
After quick profiling, it seems that PyLong_New would benefit from a free list. len(bytearray) is called very often. To stay simple, it would be enough to only store longs of length 1 (<2**15). ---------- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3873> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com