Winfried Plappert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Yes, I can confirm that the performance is lousy on Solaris.
Solaris-9/Python 2.5.1: time with os.popen : 0.124045133591 time with subprocess.Popen : 1.60335588455 Solaris-9/Python 2.6: time with os.popen : 0.115752220154 time with subprocess.Popen : 1.61768198013 Solaris-10/Python 2.4.4: time with os.popen : 0.124130010605 time with subprocess.Popen : 1.45624995232 Solaris-10/Python 2.6: time with os.popen : 0.113790988922 time with subprocess.Popen : 1.42739701271 All machines are idendital in processor speed: v240. _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4194> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com