;; Chicken (define devnull (open-output-file "/dev/null")) (define (doit) (let loop ((i 100000)) (unless (eq? i 0) (display "foo" devnull) (loop (fx- i 1))))) (doit) ## Python devnull = open('/dev/null', 'w') def doit(): i = 100000 while i != 0 : devnull.write('foo') i -= 1 doit()