This thread can be useful for ShedSkin (the Python => C++ translator), because often it manages strings slower than CPython still, some suggestions from a C++ expert can surely improve things a lot. C++ is fast, but you have to use and know it well, otherwise you don't obtain much speed.
Maybe this can be useful to speed up C++ hashing (now used in ShedSkin too): http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/hash.html I suggest to test this code with the D language too, it has built-in dicts too (associative arrays, impleented with trees and not hashes), so the source code needed is pretty short. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
