On 11/14/2012 10:56 AM, andrea crotti wrote: > Ok this is all very nice, but: > > [andrea@andreacrotti tar_baller]$ time python2 test_pipe.py > /dev/null > > real 0m21.215s > user 0m0.750s > sys 0m1.703s > > [andrea@andreacrotti tar_baller]$ time ls -lR /home/andrea | cat > /dev/null > > real 0m0.986s > user 0m0.413s > sys 0m0.600s > > <snip> > > > So apparently it's way slower than using this system, is this normal?
I'm not sure how this timing relates to the thread, but what it mainly shows is that starting up the Python interpreter takes quite a while, compared to not starting it up. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
