On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:20 AM, <andrea.gav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for your answer. I do get similar timings when I swap the two > functions, and specifically still 15 seconds to read the file via file.read() > and 2.4 seconds (more or less as before) via cPickle.load(fid). > > I thought that the order of operations might be an issue but apparently that > was not the case...
What if you call one of them twice and then the other? Just trying to rule out any possibility that it's a caching problem. On my Linux box, running 2.7.9 64-bit, the two operations take roughly the same amount of time (1.8 seconds for load vs 1s to read and 0.8 to loads). Are you able to run this off a RAM disk or something? Most curious. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
