regarding threading

[Andrew Dalke]

akash shetty:
> the file is 3.5GB . the search pattern is a ten letter
> string.the database consists of paragraphs.
>  the code ive developed searches the data
> paragraphwise.
> (using xreadlines).
> but this takes an awful amt of time.(abt 7 mins)

How are you doing the search?  character by character,
string.find, or regular expressions?  What's a "paragraph"?
Might memory mapping the file speed things up?

If you don't have a multiple processor machine,
using threads won't make a difference.  How many
processors do you have on a machine?

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com