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Optimize wrappers

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
performance

Research direction

Start with the referenced python/lttoolbox.i lines 23-24 and inspect the wrapper entry points in this repository. Measure repeated dictionary loading for an Analyzer and the cost of reopening files; done should be demonstrated by performance evidence and tests covering the resulting wrapper behavior.

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Description

enhancement

While our wrappers avoid the extra process overhead, I think they can still be improved.

e.g. we only need to run https://github.com/apertium/lttoolbox/blob/master/python/lttoolbox.i#L23-L24 one time for any given Analyzer object

On another note, we should also try to do something smarter instead of re-opening files everywhere (but this might be harder to get working).

@unhammer, is doing the first thing I mentioned (i.e. only loading the dictionary once) meaningful in terms of improving performance? Sounds to me like it would be.

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