Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > The time of line 7 was much greater than line 13.
Well, yes, reading 70 MB is much longer than reading a single byte :-) > I feel that the underlying system call takes the size argument Indeed it does. It would be totally inefficient if it didn't. > so I guess that large value suggests the C compiler to make ask the > disk subsystem to read up the longer data - hence it takes the time > since disk access is slower. It's not the C compiler. It's the OS kernel which reads data from the disk when you ask to. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17440> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
