>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > This would seem to implicate the line id2name[id] = name as >> being Michael> excruciatingly slow. >> >> As others have pointed out there is no way that this takes 45 >> minutes.Must be something with your system or setup. >> >> A functionally equivalent code for me runs in about 49 seconds! >> (it ends up using about twice as much ram as the data on disk) Michael> You can download the list of keys from here, it's 43M Michael> gzipped: http://www.sendspace.com/file/9530i7 Michael> and see it take about 45 minutes with this: I've downloaded your keys, run your program and this is the result: $ du -h keys.txt 128M keys.txt $ time python cache_keys.py real 0m55.913s user 0m35.286s sys 0m0.852s $ python Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr 26 2007, 00:02:45) [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2 $ uname -a Linux lizard 2.6.21-1-k7 #1 SMP Sat May 26 16:56:05 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux cheers Alberto -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list