Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> On 24 Nov 2006 09:03:41 -0800
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> > > On 21 Nov 2006 13:02:14 -0800
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > > The fact that it does this in Python code instead of C is the main
> > > > cause of the slowness. So,
Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> On 21 Nov 2006 13:02:14 -0800
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > The fact that it does this in Python code instead of C is the main
> > cause of the slowness. So, unless Python is changed to do this in C,
> > it's always going to be slow on AIX :-(
>
> I guess that the rea
Łukasz Langa wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > Ok, I built Python 2.5 (same AIX 5.1 machine). With the "for line in
> > shellOut" loop in, it now takes "only" 7 secs instead of the 11 secs in
> > python 2.4.3. So, that's better, but still unreasonably slow. And to
> > answer another's question,
Leif K-Brooks wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > i = 0
> > while (i < 20):
> > i = i + 1
>
> for i in xrange(20):
>
> > (shellIn, shellOut) = os.popen4("/bin/sh -c ':'") # for testing, the
> > spawned shell does nothing
> > print 'next'
> > # for line in shellOut:
> > # print line
[ Warning: I'm new to Python. Don't know it at all really yet, but had
to examine some 3rd party code because of performance problems with it.
]
Here's a code snippet:
i = 0
while (i < 20):
i = i + 1
(shellIn, shellOut) = os.popen4("/bin/sh -c ':'") # for testing, the
spawned shell does not
