squeeze out some performance

[Mark Lawrence]

On 09/12/2013 14:19, Robert Voigtländer wrote:
> 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 06/12/2013 16:52, John Ladasky 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...
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> Thanks again. I'll try to compress the code and have a look at the "multiple comparisons" topic.
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> Robert
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Would you be kind enough to compress your messages while you're at it by 
reading and actioning https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython 
thanks, a quick glance above will tell you why :)

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Mark Lawrence