File parsing performance comparison

gistfile1.txt

 $ time python parse.py 

real	0m0.065s
user	0m0.060s
sys	0m0.000s

 $ md5sum out*
f43b4dd719f7d0c11012061b50dd96a8  out1.txt
169344f96bf67ce3dcd585802f116c05  out2.txt

 $ ls -lh out*
-rw-r--r-- 1 samu samu 528K 2012-11-08 14:01 out1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 samu samu 440K 2012-11-08 14:01 out2.txt

 $ time bash parse.sh 

real	0m12.399s
user	0m0.850s
sys	0m0.670s

 $ md5sum out*
ac45d031ba52dc98c1fd4dd463f63c87  out1.txt
b8af90144fe2dce2789442f56e3c252e  out2.txt

 $ ls -lh out*
-rw-r--r-- 1 samu samu 528K 2012-11-08 14:02 out1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 samu samu 440K 2012-11-08 14:02 out2.txt