I just had some fun playing with this.
A couple of comments :
- The code to read in the dictionary is a bit inefficient. The folloing in Dictionary.pm speeds things up by removing surplus split/join code :
our %dict;
our %reversedict;
sub read_dict
{
while (<DATA>)
{
chomp;
if (/^([^\s]+)\s\s(.*)$/)
{
my ($key,$value) = ($1,$2);
$dict{$key} = $value;
$reversedict{$value} = $key;
}
}
return;
}
This speeds up the initial read from 10+ seconds to 6.5 seconds on my machine.
-
I also played with using Storable to speed up subsequent accesses.
my $dict = "/tmp/Lingua::EN::Rhyme::Dictionary::DICT";
my $reversedict = "/tmp/Lingua::EN::Rhyme::Dictionary::REVDICT";
my $loaded = retrieve_dict();
sub store_dict
{
read_dict();
store(\%dict,$dict);
store(\%reversedict,$reversedict);
}
sub retrieve_dict
{
my $ref = retrieve("DICT");
if ($ref)
{
%dict = %$ref;
$ref = retrieve("REVDICT");
%reversedict = %$ref;
}
else
{
# Read in normal way and store
read_dict();
store_dict();
}
return 1;
}
This uses Storable to store and retrieve the dictionaries. It saves some time, but not a lot and leves the extra files around.I also started playing with storing this in a mysql DB, but haven't got that clean yet (it really needs a rewrite of all of Rhyme.pl.
Hope that is of help.
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Brovnik