Yes, writing to a file is one of the slower things you can do. So if that's in 
a performance-critical loop it will very much slow things down. But that would 
be true for Python and PyPy as well. Are you doing the same thing in that code?


> On Mar 25, 2015, at 4:00 AM, Michael Bullman <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Guys, 
> 
> So I just went back through my code. I didn't see any global variables. I'm 
> going to try and start using the @time macro tomorrow to try and identify the 
> worse functions. Would writes to file significantly impact speed? I know 
> looking on google writing to files is frowned upon, but what is a better 
> alternative? Hold everything in an Array until the program finishes then 
> write out at the end? Are data bases a viable option when output is very 
> large? Or when records need to be kept?
> 
> I'm also going over the code again and might post a copy if people are 
> interested, but I'm not going to be doing that tonight. 
> 
> Thanks again

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