Re: improved levenshtein

That is a nice speedup of the pure Perl version of the algorithm.

But if I were you, I would benchmark your code against the XS code before you call your stuff 'fast'. The XS version was written explicitly for speed.

How about submitting a patch for the Text::Levenshtein instead? That way CPAN has one optimized pure Perl module and one optimized XS module for the task, simple.

-Mark

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Re: Re: improved levenshtein by bageler (Hermit) on Mar 03, 2004 at 18:36 UTC
I did also benchmark against the XS module, and my module is quite slow in comparison (duh) unless the strings are equal, where my short circuit (return 0 if $word1 eq $word2) lays the smack down, in the parlance of our times. for your information, here are my benchmark results: joshs-Computer:~/leven josh$ perl levenshtein.pl foo fee The distance between foo and fee is 2 Rate cpan mine cpanxs cpan 80.6/s -- -16% -97% mine 95.5/s 18% -- -97% cpanxs 2844/s 3430% 2879% -- joshs-Computer:~/leven josh$ perl levenshtein.pl foo foo The distance between foo and foo is 0 Rate cpan cpanxs mine cpan 83.2/s -- -97% -98% cpanxs 2849/s 3325% -- -31% mine 4109/s 4840% 44% -- joshs-Computer:~/leven josh$ perl levenshtein.pl foo bar The distance between foo and bar is 3 Rate cpan mine cpanxs cpan 81.2/s -- -15% -97% mine 95.4/s 18% -- -97% cpanxs 2829/s 3385% 2865% -- oshs-Computer:~/leven josh$ perl levenshtein.pl 1234567890 0987654321 The distance between 1234567890 and 0987654321 is 10 Rate cpan mine cpanxs cpan 9.35/s -- -24% -99% mine 12.3/s 31% -- -99% cpanxs 1782/s 18966% 14410% -- [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: improved levenshtein by valdez (Monsignor) on Mar 03, 2004 at 18:54 UTC
The author of both modules is known here as dree, send your patch to him. Ciao, Valerio	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: improved levenshtein by waswas-fng (Curate) on Mar 03, 2004 at 22:24 UTC
does rolling out _min inline make much difference? -Waswas	[reply]
Re^3: improved levenshtein by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Nov 18, 2013 at 23:52 UTC
in the parlance of our times. "New shit has come to light, man!" Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're god damn right I'm living in the fucking past	[reply]