New submission from Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
In py3k, buffered binary IO can be quadratic when e.g. reading a whole file.
This is a small test on 50KB, 100KB and 200KB files:
-> py3k with buffering:
./python -m timeit -s "f = open('50KB', 'rb')" "f.seek(0); f.read()"
1000 loops, best of 3: 286 usec per loop
./python -m timeit -s "f = open('100KB', 'rb')" "f.seek(0); f.read()"
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.07 msec per loop
./python -m timeit -s "f = open('200KB', 'rb')" "f.seek(0); f.read()"
100 loops, best of 3: 4.85 msec per loop
-> py3k without buffering (just the raw FileIO layer):
./python -m timeit -s "f = open('50KB', 'rb', buffering=0)" "f.seek(0);
f.read()"
10000 loops, best of 3: 46 usec per loop
./python -m timeit -s "f = open('100KB', 'rb', buffering=0)" "f.seek(0);
f.read()"
10000 loops, best of 3: 88.7 usec per loop
./python -m timeit -s "f = open('200KB', 'rb', buffering=0)" "f.seek(0);
f.read()"
10000 loops, best of 3: 156 usec per loop
-> for comparison, Python 2.5:
python -m timeit -s "f = open('50KB', 'rb')" "f.seek(0); f.read()"
10000 loops, best of 3: 34.4 usec per loop
python -m timeit -s "f = open('100KB', 'rb')" "f.seek(0); f.read()"
10000 loops, best of 3: 62.3 usec per loop
python -m timeit -s "f = open('200KB', 'rb')" "f.seek(0); f.read()"
10000 loops, best of 3: 119 usec per loop
I'm posting this issue as a reminder, but perhaps someone is already
working on this, or the goal is to translate it to C ultimately?
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 64788
nosy: pitrou
severity: normal
status: open
title: binary buffered reading is quadratic
type: performance
versions: Python 3.0
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