wanzathe wrote: > i have a binary file named test.dat including 9600000 records. > the record format is int a + int b + int c + int d > i want to build a dict like this: key=int a,int b values=int c,int d > i choose using bsddb and it takes about 140 seconds to build the dict.
you're not building a dict, you're populating a persistent database. storing ~70000 records per second isn't that bad, really... > what can i do if i want to make my program run faster? > or is there another way i can choose? why not just use a real Python dictionary, and the marshal module for serialization? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
