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Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?

From BartC <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?
Date 2016-03-08 11:09 +0000
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On 08/03/2016 02:45, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 08/03/2016 01:47, BartC wrote:

>> The Python timing for that file is around 20 seconds, time enough to
>> read 10000 copies from the disk.
>>
>> And a C program reads /and decodes/ the same file from the same disk in
>> between 0.1 and 0.2 seconds.
>>
>
> So how much of that time is Python startup time, compared to C which is
> effectively zero?

Virtually zero as well.

That's if by start-up time you mean how long between invoking Python 
with the name of the main module, executing all the imports and defs in 
the main and imported modules, until it starts properly executing code.

In the jpeg test, perhaps 50ms. And it would not depend on the size of 
the input since the start-up routines won't know that.

> Or are you suggesting that C code is always 100 times
> faster than Python?

This test is one of those where C can clearly do a good job of reducing 
most of it down to a series of tight loops where everything is in registers.

But yes, numeric algorithms are generally going to be a magnitude or two 
faster in optimised C, compared with CPython executing pure Python code.

(But I also remember posting a test in comp.lang.c that was faster in 
Python than in C. It involved strings and Python had the edge because it 
used counted strings. A straightforward C version would use 
zero-terminated strings, although it could be speeded up with a bit more 
work.)

 > Of course I'd like to see you write C code 100
> times faster than Python,

No, it would take longer. But the final result could be run hundreds of 
times a day by millions of people.

-- 
Bartc

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Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-03-06 11:34 +0000
  Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-07 01:41 +1100
    Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-03-07 10:45 +0000
    Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Andrew Jaffe <a.h.jaffe@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 11:54 +0000
    Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-03-07 17:33 -0500
  Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-07 11:02 +0000
    Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-07 13:11 +0200
      Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-07 11:38 +0000
        Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Fabien <fabien.maussion@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 13:19 +0100
          Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-07 13:25 +0000
            Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 02:31 +1100
              Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-07 18:34 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 06:10 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-07 20:19 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 07:47 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-07 22:39 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 10:40 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 00:22 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-08 00:43 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 11:45 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-03-08 00:47 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-07 20:29 -0500
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-03-07 22:51 -0500
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 17:34 -0700
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-09 13:01 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 11:38 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-08 11:05 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 01:00 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-08 01:12 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 01:47 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-08 02:45 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 11:09 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-08 16:09 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 19:15 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-08 20:44 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 22:38 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-09 10:59 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-09 08:40 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-09 12:02 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-09 21:13 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-09 23:14 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-09 23:35 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-10 00:58 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 12:28 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-10 07:30 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-10 11:50 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-10 12:15 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-10 12:47 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 00:08 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-10 14:22 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-10 19:26 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-11 16:29 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-11 18:57 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-11 21:59 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-11 22:24 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-12 16:59 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-03-12 10:06 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-12 10:31 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-12 10:51 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-03-12 15:36 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-13 14:22 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-12 10:34 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 21:40 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 07:07 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-11 16:06 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 16:36 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-10 13:18 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 00:30 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-10 13:46 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-10 18:43 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 18:55 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-10 12:59 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-10 12:19 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 10:38 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> - 2016-03-09 23:48 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 11:03 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> - 2016-03-10 02:38 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 14:43 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-10 01:30 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-10 13:29 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-10 14:32 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-10 13:45 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-10 11:21 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 12:23 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 01:33 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-08 12:38 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 12:40 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 02:02 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-08 13:28 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-03-08 02:47 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 11:15 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-03-08 13:45 +0200
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 12:09 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-03-07 22:39 -0500
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-08 03:48 +0000
                What will I get when reading from a file? (was: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-08 11:09 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-08 13:12 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 11:53 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-09 10:28 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-09 00:09 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 11:36 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-08 21:03 -0500
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-10 03:07 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 14:48 +0200
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-08 12:34 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 12:49 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 15:05 +0200
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-08 12:19 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 01:41 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-08 15:40 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 13:49 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-08 16:15 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-08 09:23 -0800
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-08 19:02 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-09 11:04 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-09 01:28 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-09 13:18 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-09 02:11 -0800
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-09 14:03 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 01:11 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-09 14:39 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 01:54 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-10 02:33 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 02:58 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> - 2016-03-09 14:56 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-10 02:28 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-10 01:57 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 02:04 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-09 16:53 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-10 01:54 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> - 2016-03-09 15:06 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2016-03-09 15:15 +0000
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-10 02:38 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-03-09 10:42 -0500
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-09 09:04 -0800
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-09 08:08 +0200
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-09 22:52 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-09 14:53 +0200
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-10 03:53 +1100
                Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 17:42 -0700
        Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-08 02:53 +0000
    Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 19:02 +0000

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