Re: CPython keeps on getting faster

2006-09-10 Thread George Sakkis
John Machin wrote: > Here are some data points that illustrate the improvement in speed > since 2.1 for one (probably atypical) application: rummaging through a > 120MB Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file using the xlrd package. > > The time shown is the number of seconds required to open the file an

CPython keeps on getting faster

2006-09-10 Thread John Machin
Here are some data points that illustrate the improvement in speed since 2.1 for one (probably atypical) application: rummaging through a 120MB Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file using the xlrd package. The time shown is the number of seconds required to open the file and parse out all data content