Hello Python-List I hope somebody can help me with this. I spent some time googling for an answer, but due to the nature of the problem lots of unrelevant stuff shows up.
Anyway, I reimplemented parts of TigerSearch ( http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/TIGER/TIGERSearch/ ) in Python. I am currently writing the paper that goes along with this reimplementation. Part of the paper deals with the differences/similarities in the original Java implementation and my reimplementation. In order to superficially evaluate differences in speed, I used this paper ( http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/cgi-bin/psview?document=ira/2000/5&format=1 ) as a reference. Now, this is not about speed differences between Java and Python, mind you, but about the speed built-in datatypes (dictionaries, lists etc.) run at. As far as I understood it from the articles and books I read, any method call from these objects run nearly at C-speed (I use this due to lack of a better term), since these parts are implemented in C. Now the question is: a) Is this true? b) Is there a correct term for C-speed and what is it? I would greatly appreciate an answer to that, since this has some impact on the argumentation in the paper. Thanks, Maël PS: For people interested in this reimplementation project: my code will be published here ( http://www.ling.su.se/dali/downloads/treealigner/index.htm ) as soon as it is integrated with the GUI and properly tested. The whole thing is GPLed... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
