On Jan 22, 9:05 am, Terry Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Arnaud > > > I've tried a completely different approach, that I imagine as 'folding'. I > > thought it would improve performance over my previous effort but extremely > > limited and crude benchmarking seems to indicate disappointingly comparable > > performance... > > I wrote a stack-based version yesterday and it's also slow. It keeps track > of the stack computation and allows you to backtrack. I'll post it > sometime, but it's too slow for my liking and I need to put in some more > optimizations. I'm trying not to think about this problem. > > What was wrong with the very fast(?) code you sent earlier?
I thought it was a bit convoluted, wanted to try something I thought had more potential. I think the problem with the second one is that I repeat the same 'fold' too many times. I'll take a closer look at the weekend. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
