On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsdu...@gmx.de> wrote: > Uhh, yes, you're right there... I must admit that I was too lazy to > include all the stat headers and to a proper st_size check in the C > version (just a quick hack), so it's practically hardcoded. > > With files of exactly 2GB in size the results should be the same (more > or less, +- 1 line doesn't matter really), because 2 GB / 2048 (the > buffer) = 1 Million. > > Sorry I didn't mention that, it was really kind of sloppy, > quick-and-dirty C writing on my part. But you're right, the Python > implementation does what is actually supposed to happen.
I shall attempt to optimize this :) I have a funny feeling you might be caught up with some features of Python - one notable one being that some things in Python are immutable. psyco might help here though ... cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
