On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:20:08 -0700, Simon Strobl wrote:
>> > I thought it would be practical not to create the dictionary from a >> > text file each time I needed it. I.e. I thought loading the .pyc-file >> > should be faster. Yet, Python failed to create a .pyc-file >> >> Probably a good example of premature optimization. > > Well, as I was using Python, I did not expect to have to care about the > language's internal affairs that much. I thought I could simply do > always the same no matter how large my files get. In other words, I > thought Python was really scalable. Yeah, it really is a pain when abstractions leak. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html >> Out of curiosity, how >> long does it take to create it from a text file? > > I do not remember this exactly. But I think it was not much more than an > hour. Hmmm... longer than I expected. Perhaps not as premature as I thought. Have you tried the performance of the pickle and marshal modules? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
