E&S CVS Commit: PyProtocols - Index optimization: share seed lists for equivalent criteria so that less

[pje at eby-sarna.com]

Module Name:	PyProtocols
Committed By:	pje
Date:		Thu Apr 21 15:31:34 UTC 2005

Modified Files:
	PyProtocols/src/dispatch: interfaces.py predicates.py strategy.py

Log Message:
Index optimization: share seed lists for equivalent criteria so that less
memory is used and index operations run faster when there is more than one
case using the same criterion.  For those indexing operations that are
O(n^2), the "n" is now the number of distinct criteria instead of the
number of cases, so the growth of "n" should be less than the growth of the
generic function overall.  In order to support this optimization,
ICriterion objects must now be hashable, and return equal hashes for equal
criteria.  So, AbstractCriterion now provides some basic support for
automatic hashing and comparison if you invoke AbstractCriterion.__init__(
self,data) where 'data' is the value to be used for hashing and comparison.


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