From: "SHULTZ,BARRY (HP-Israel,ex1)" <barry_shultz@...>
Date: 2000-12-31T20:00:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8393] Re: speedup of anagram finder

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Alan Black [mailto:dblack@candle.superlink.net]
> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 10:40 PM
> To: ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp
> Subject: [ruby-talk:8372] Re: speedup of anagram finder
>
> 
> So perhaps we should synchronize our word lists and see what happens.

I'd appreciate it if you'd send me a zipped version of your word list.
Along with word size, I thought maybe the length of the word list itself
might be
a factor, that prime2 has heavy initial overhead because of the array and
then 
speeds :0) through the actual processing. My wordlist.txt file is very
contrived.
I entered about 150 words and then just copied that chunk over and over
until
I had around 20,000 words. I then made a few minor changes, so that I could 
debug a bit. But obviously, I get lots of anagram "hits" :0).

> 
> Meanwhile, another thing that might be useful here is generalizing the
> creation of the prime number array or hash:
> 

Thanks a lot for the tip! I'll look into it as soon as I have time.

Barry