title: rough estimate time it takes to do string comparisons Python
body: <p>I have a string, call it <em>paragraph</em> that contains about  50-100 words separated by spaces.
    I have an array of 5500 strings all about 3-5 characters long.
      What I want to do is check each word in <em>paragraph</em> and see if any of the words are also contained in my array of 5500 strings.</p>
  
  <p>does anyone have a rough estimate of the time it would take to do a once-over in Python?
     i want to check each word in the paragraph against the array</p>
  
  <p>I will probably end up writing the code anyway as my guess is it won't take too long to process.</p>
  
  <p>If this question is too lazy... how does one go about finding computation time for Python in a simple string example like this?</p>