> > and see it take about 45 minutes with this:
> >
> > $ cat cache-keys.py
> > #!/usr/bin/python
> > v = {}
> > for line in open('keys.txt'):
> > v[long(line.strip())] = True
>
> On my system (windows vista) your code (using your data) runs in:
>
> 36 seconds with python 2.4
> 25 seconds with python 2.5
> 39 seconds with python 3000*wow* The win32 Python or the cygwin Python? What CPU architecture? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
