I've one big (6.9 Gb) .gz file with text inside it. zcat bigfile.gz > /dev/null does the job in 4 minutes 50 seconds
python code have been doing the same job for 25 minutes and still doesn't finish =( the code is simpliest I could ever imagine: def main(): fh = gzip.open(sys.argv[1]) all(fh) As far as I understand most of the time it executes C code, so pythons no overhead should be noticible. Why is it so slow? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
