Such progress a few days can bring. Just last week the lxml.etree
performance figures on ElementTree operations like findall lost
out badly to pure Python code. So badly, it was pretty embarassing:
Mon Jan 17 2005 22:31 lxml performance progress:
findall('//v') on ot.xml
ElementTree: 0.13 s
cElementTree: 0.11 s
lxml.etree: 1.9 s
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