Slow inventory extraction from weavefile

[Martin Pool]

On 04/10/05, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Yeah 450 is slow.  I'd target maybe 1.5 GHz machines.  But when you
> consider that weaves were invented 30 years ago, and intended to be
> fast, I wonder whether we're missing any optimization tricks.

We are doing several things inefficiently, in particular as I said
before loading and throwing away the weave every time.  Also CPU-bound
Python on a new machine is like C on a 5 year old machine.

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Martin