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Accurate benchmarks? #36
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I just compared those two in a real-life application and editdistance is about 30% faster. |
@maxbachmann Great chart. It shows the choice of implementation really depends on the application.
For the latter |
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Hey, I ran a quick benchmark of my own on, using:
python-Levenshtein 0.12.0
(pypi)editdistance 0.5.3
(pypi)In my tests
python-Levenshtein
is about 10x faster. Perhaps it's the macOS binaries? Or maybe your tests are outdated?Prints:
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