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On 08/03/2016 01:00, BartC wrote:
>
> If your efforts manage to double the speed of reading file A, then
> probably the reading file B is also going to be improved! In practice
> you use a variety of files, but one at a time will do.
>

What is the difference in your timing when you first read the file, and 
then read it a second time when it's been cached by the OS?  In other 
words, you are probably measuring more of the response time of the disk 
than the code that does the reading, hence making your figures useless.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence