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Re: Recursive generator for combinations of a multiset?

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Date 2013-12-05 20:05 -0800
Subject Re: Recursive generator for combinations of a multiset?
From Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:46 PM, John O'Hagan <research@johnohagan.com>wrote:

>
> Short story: the subject says it all, so if you have an answer already,
> fire away. Below is the long story of what I'm using it for, and why I
> think it needs to be recursive. It may even be of more general
> interest in terms of filtering the results of generators.
>


> Any suggestions?
>
I've updated my code at
http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/svn/anagrams/trunk/; It's multiword now.
 It can blast through the word "punishment" in 4
seconds, but for "The public art galleries" it ate about 7 gigabytes of RAM
and ran for more than a day before I killed it.

I believe it's an exponential problem.  Parallelization might help, but
it'd probably take a lot of RAM that way.  Maybe the RAM use would be
better with CPython, but it's much faster with Pypy; I did most of my
testing with Pypy 2.2.

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Re: Recursive generator for combinations of a multiset? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-12-05 20:05 -0800

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