title: Parsing a large text file Python vs c#
body: <p>What is the fastest way of parsing a 8GB text file? Will Pythons performance be comparable to c#?</p>
  
  <pre><code>exampledomain NS ns.anameserver.com.
  exampledomain NS ns2.anameserver.com.
  exampledomain NS ns3.anameserver.com.
  anotherdomain NS ns1.nameservers.com.
  cooldomain NS ns.example.com.
  cooldomain NS ns2.example.com.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need to parse each line and update a database table with first and third item for each line, ignoring the NS in each line. </p>