"col speed" <ajarnco...@gmail.com> wrote
Just my twopenneth, I'm a noob and I'm not going to try such a big
file on
my old machine, but:
1. Maybe create a *set* from the wordlist, loop through that, so you
call
"count" on wordlist only once. OR
This would be an improvement but still involves traversing the entire
list N times where N is the number of unique words.
2. Use collections.defaultdict(int) and loop through wordlist and do
dic[word] += 1
This is what his second version is supposed to do and is the
best solution since it only involves a single trasverse of the file.
Alan G.
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