[Python-Dev] Fast Implementation for ZIP decryption (original) (raw)

Ludvig Ericson ludvig at lericson.se
Sun Aug 30 17:58:59 CEST 2009

On 30 aug 2009, at 16:34, Shashank Singh wrote:

just to give you an idea of the speed up:

a 3.3 mb zip file extracted using the current all-python implementation on my machine (win xp 1.67Ghz 1.5GB) takes approximately 38 seconds. the same file when extracted using c implementation takes 0.4 seconds.

If this matters to the users of the API, then likely they'd search for
alternatives -- no need for it to go into the standard library just
because it replaces functionality, or am I misunderstanding?

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