Wow Paul! thanks a lot for your comments! I learned a lot already only by reading them, I will implement them and see what the speed gains are.
Keep an eye on my blog, I will post an update on it soon! thanks, guyon ps. love this group "Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > http://gumuz.looze.net/wordpress/index.php/archives/2004/11/25/huffman-encoding/ > Great first step at some self-learning with a non-trivial test program. > Here are some performance speedups that will help you out. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
