On Oct 25, 11:12 pm, Dale Gerdemann <dale.gerdem...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I've written simple code in 2.6 and 3.0 to read every charcter of a > set of files and print out some information for each of these > characters. I tested each program on a large Cyrillic/Latin text. The > result was that the 2.6 version was about 5x faster.
3.0? Nowadays nobody wants to know about benchmarks of 3.0. Much of the new 3.X file I/O stuff was written in Python. It has since been rewritten in C. In general AFAICT there is no good reason to be using 3.0. Consider updating to 3.1.1. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
