> FWIW, the original program can also be compiled with Shed Skin (http:// > mark.dufour.googlepages.com), an experimental (static-)Python-to-C++ > compiler, resulting in a speedup of about 8 times for a single test > with 500 tuples. here's a slightly modified version that works with > Shed Skin CVS at least:
after optimizing dicts a bit for Shedskin 0.0.21 (http:// mark.dufour.googlepages.com), the speedup for this program is now about 16.5 times for the same test. Thanks, Mark Dufour (Shed Skin author - send me bug reports!) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
