Here you go: https://pastebin.com/iemfTkzx https://pastebin.com/iemfTkzx As a dataset, I just use find to generate a list of paths from the file system: find

Here you go: https://pastebin.com/iemfTkzx https://pastebin.com/iemfTkzx As a dataset, I just use find to generate a list of paths from the file system: find / > large.txt I tested with Swift 5.7 and 5.9, and Python is always between 4x and 10x faster.