Python is slow?

[Robert Kern]

J Peyret wrote:
> On Sep 23, 8:31 am, bearophileH... at lycos.com wrote:
> 
> Guys, this looks like a great data structure/algo for something I am
> working on.
> 
> But... where do I find some definitions of the original BK-tree idea?

Uh, actually we're talking about kd-trees, not BK-trees. kd-trees are for 
searching through point sets in a k-dimensional space.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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