Tony Pelletier wrote:
So, my question is. Why is it running so much faster on linux? Is it the
way that linux is handling the socket? Does windows open and close it
whereas linux might leave it open and just pump data through?
Perhaps; you'll have to read the source code to see if there are
differences in geopy, or in the code that it relies on. But I suspect
you *might* be seeing this bug:
http://www.mail-archive.com/python-dev@python.org/msg40692.html
It's a long thread, but the summary is: reading data over the Internet
on Windows using some versions of Python is *sometimes* EXTREMELY slow
compared to Linux or third party tools. This is due to a bug in the
httplib module, which used a naive way of concatenating many little
strings. Most of the time, Python has an optimization that can disguise
how slow this is, but occasionally the optimization can fail.
--
Steven
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