Help Optimizing Word Search

[Win]

Hi Case.

Just in case you're really, truly looking for a fast Scrabble
word-search algorithm, the classic AI/CS article here is:

Andrew W. Appel and Guy J. Jacobson, The world's fastest Scrabble
program, Communications of the ACM, 31(5), pp 572--578, May 1988.

You can find a copy of this article at, for example:
http://counties.csc.calpoly.edu/~team12fk/F02/acm_worlds_fastest_scrabble_program.pdf

This algorithm uses a "dawg" (Directed Acyclic Word Graph). You can
find a well-documented example of this data structure implemented in
Python in the the WordUtils package:
http://cedar-solutions.com/software/wordutils/

Regards,

Win