[Win32utils-devel] Speeding up win32-eventlog

[Heesob Park]

Hi,

2007/8/26, Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I released win32-eventlog 0.4.5 today. It's still a bit on the slow
> side. The profiler (and general testing) indicates that it's line 696
> that's the major culprit:
>
> va_list = str.split(0.chr)[0...num]
>
> Other than changing 0.chr to a literal "\0", does anyone have a way to
> speed this up?
>
> It's not crucial, but I thought it might make a nice benchmarking
> challenge for folks on the list. :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan


How about this?

va_list = str.unpack('Z*' * num)

In my test, it is faster thousandfold than split.

Regards,

Park Heesob
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