[Jython-users] BeautifulSoup is very slow with Jython

[Eli G. <eg...@gm...>]

Hi,

I just tried to run BeautifulSoup (3.1.0.1) with Jython (2.5.1) and I
was amazed to see how much slower it was than CPython (2.6). Parsing a
page (http://www.fixprotocol.org/specifications/fields/5000-5999) with
CPython took just under a second (0.844 second to be exact). With
Jython it took 564 seconds - almost 700 times as much.

Can anyone confirm this result? It's doesn't seem reasonable for
Jython to run 700 times slower than CPython. Perhaps something is
wrong with my setup.

Here's the code I used:

import time
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
data = open("fix-5000-5999.html").read()
start = time.time()
soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
print time.time() - start

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gooli