Walter Prins, 21.12.2010 22:13:
On 21 December 2010 17:57, Alan Gauld wrote:
"Stefan Behnel" wrote
But I don't understand how uncompressing a file before parsing it can
be faster than parsing the original uncompressed file?
I didn't say "uncompressing a file *before* parsing it". I meant
uncompressing the data *while* parsing it.
Ah, ok that can work, although it does add a layer of processing
to identify compressed v uncompressed data, but if I/O is the
bottleneck then it could give an advantage.
OK my apologies, I see my previous response was already circumscribed by
later emails (which I had not read yet.) Feel free to ignore it. :)
Not much of a reason to apologize. Especially on a newbee list like
python-tutor, a few words more or a different way of describing things may
help in widening the set of readers who understand and manage to follow
other people's arguments.
Stefan
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