Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Here is a quick profile under 3.x:
Time: 10178.0 ms 320812 function calls (320809 primitive calls) in 10.182 seconds Ordered by: internal time ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function) 10000 5.937 0.001 5.937 0.001 {built-in method read} 10000 1.462 0.000 1.462 0.000 {built-in method waitpid} 10000 1.042 0.000 1.042 0.000 {built-in method fork_exec} 10000 0.752 0.000 8.131 0.001 subprocess.py:1119(_execute_child) 1 0.228 0.228 10.182 10.182 bench_subprocess.py:1(<module>) 10000 0.177 0.000 8.345 0.001 subprocess.py:631(__init__) 20000 0.079 0.000 0.079 0.000 {built-in method close} 10000 0.061 0.000 1.584 0.000 subprocess.py:1368(wait) So it looks like our parent Python process spends its time (read(), waitpid()) waiting for its child... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11314> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com