> > This would seem to implicate the line id2name[id] = name as being excruciatingly slow. > > As others have pointed out there is no way that this takes 45 > minutes.Must be something with your system or setup. > > A functionally equivalent code for me runs in about 49 seconds! > (it ends up using about twice as much ram as the data on disk)
You can download the list of keys from here, it's 43M gzipped: http://www.sendspace.com/file/9530i7 and see it take about 45 minutes with this: $ cat cache-keys.py #!/usr/bin/python v = {} for line in open('keys.txt'): v[long(line.strip())] = True -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list