anydbm is slow

[Skip Montanaro]

    Sean> One thing I did find was that letting anydbm pick the dbm module,
    Sean> which I eventually found would, after inserting a lot of elements,
    Sean> generate an exception on insertion.  It, unfortunately, wasn't
    Sean> very reliable and I never ended up tracking it down.  I did end up
    Sean> switching to gdbm, which solved the problem.

Could it have perhaps been choosing bsddb and you had Berkeley DB 1.x
installed?  It had serious bugs in the hash implementation.

-- 
Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)