You might also want to performance compare against Guava's ImmutableMap
http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableMap.html
keeping in mind the javadoc note about caching hashCodes in the
elements if calculating them is slow.
michael
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:05 AM, LAW Andy <andy....@roslin.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On 20 Sep 2013, at 16:53, Andy Yates <aya...@ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> It depends on the number of translations you're doing. We did some quite
>> large performance testing Pjotr Prins for his chapter in Evolutionary
>> Genomics book and those changes where a direct result of that *. I think the
>> right solution is to revert to using the map already available in the class
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> * I wish I still had the stats from before & after this change to show what
>> the performance impact was.
>>
>
> I'm surprised at that, given that the lookup is essentially from a small,
> finite set. But then again, the quicker version seems to have been giving the
> wrong answer so that's probably not a trade off one would want to consider :o{
>
> Later,
>
> Andy
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