Tim Peters wrote at 2006-4-13 19:44 -0400: > ... >Beyond that, it requires someone to try >it. I'm reminded that when the MEMS Exchange wrote Durus (a kind of >"ZODB lite" ;-): > > http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/durus/ > >) > >they left their entire BTree implementation coded in Python -- it was >"fast enough" that way.
I can tell you from experience that for cataloguing purposes a C implementation is vital: My C based "IncrementalSearch2" performs large "or" queries two orders of magnitude faster than the Python based "IncrementalSearch". Going from 4 to 8 byte integers will not have this huge effect. Nevertheless, the C implemented algorithms will mostly be considerably slower (I estimate between 20 and 35 percent), unless we are on a 64bit machine. -- Dieter _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
