Populating a dictionary, fast

[Michael Bacarella]

> > I tried your code (with one change, time on feedback lines) and got
 the
> >  same terrible
> > performance against my data set.
> >
> > To prove that my machine is sane, I ran the same against your
 generated
>>  sample file and got _excellent_ performance.  Start to finish in
 under a minute.
>
> One possibility could be that your dataset turns out to be some sort
> of pathological worst case for the hashing algorithm in python.


Cool!

Putting that on the resume. ;)