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Shock Result? Rust faster than Python in a single test of file parsing

by jonquark on 10/17/20, 1:49 PM with 2 comments

  • by thiasdflkj on 10/17/20, 2:46 PM

    why the `fp.readline()` and `while line:` business?

    I don't have a big file handy to benchmark but that pattern moves the file reading into python bytecode.

    The canonical way to read a file line by line while counting the lines is to loop over the file (it's automatically a line iterator) and use enumerate.

    here is the disassembed bytecode of the respective versions

    https://pastebin.com/Rd4g8cE2

    that being said, Rust will still outrun Python overall.