I'm not familiar with how Windows works, but I wouldn't be surprised if it caches directory information. (Unix systems certainly would.) You probably aren't really doing much actual I/O to get the size of a file after the first run. Also, you probably want to subtract the time it takes to execute a no-op function:
def noop(): pass
to eliminate the overhead of calling your main function.
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