[bip] Bioinformatics Programming Language Shootout, Python performance poopoo'd

[Paulo Nuin]

Andrew Dalke wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 4:48 AM, Andrew Dalke wrote:
>   
>> As a rough guess that's 4GB or larger.  Hmm, but I was reading from  
>> a gzipped file.  Still, it'll have to be a *huge* file to get that  
>> slow performance.
>>     
>
>
> Here is it
>
>    A 9.8 Gb file from a BLASTP search with Caenorhabditis elegans  
> sequence
>
>   
I am trying to do a blastp with the sequence ID from the paper and I am 
not getting a 9.8 Gb file. Not even 9.8 Mb. I have tested a couple of 
methods, even using Geneious to to the blast. Anyone else tried to 
obtain this file?
I wanted to redo the "benchmarks" with some code modifications.

Paulo