squeeze out some performance

[Robert Voigtländer]

Am Samstag, 7. Dezember 2013 00:01:49 UTC+1 schrieb Dan Stromberg:
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Mark Lawrence <bream... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> On Friday, December 6, 2013 12:47:54 AM UTC-8, Robert Voigtländer wrote:
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> I try to squeeze out some performance of the code pasted on the link below.
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> http://pastebin.com/gMnqprST
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> 1) I find this program to be very difficult to read, largely because there's a whole LOT of duplicated code.  Look at lines 53-80, and lines 108-287, and lines 294-311.  It makes it harder to see what this algorithm actually does.  Is there a way to refactor some of this code to use some shared function calls?
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> A handy tool for detecting duplicated code here http://clonedigger.sourceforge.net/ for anyone who's interested.
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> Pylint does this too...

Thanks again. I'll try to compress the code and have a look at the "multiple comparisons" topic.

Robert