collections.Counter surprisingly slow
Serhiy Storchaka
storchaka at gmail.com
Mon Jul 29 02:25:49 EDT 2013
28.07.13 22:59, Roy Smith написав(ла):
> The input is an 8.8 Mbyte file containing about 570,000 lines (11,000
> unique strings).
Repeat you tests with totally unique lines.
> The full profiler dump is at the end of this message, but the gist of
> it is:
Profiler affects execution time. In particular it slowdown Counter
implementation which uses more function calls. For real world
measurement use different approach.
> Why is count() [i.e. collections.Counter] so slow?
Feel free to contribute a patch which fixes this "wart". Note that
Counter shouldn't be slowdowned on mostly unique data.
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