Articles tagged 'data structure'
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Ruby performance: Using benchmarks and memory_profiler to chase performance degradations
February 11, 2018
While working on some of the performance improvements for version 1.0.0 of Rambling Trie late in 2016 and early in 2017, I upgraded from Ruby 2.3.3 to Ruby 2.4.0 imagining that the newer version would help me on my mission to make all operations execute a bit faster. To my surprise, I ran into a significant performance degradation after upgrading - specifically, there was a ~25% increase in the time it took to execute a script using a trie with a big-ish word dictionary. This intrigued me enough that I decided to take a closer look.
Benchmarking with Ruby
After some investigation with the help of Ruby’s own
Benchmark
, I realized that while most operations were a bit slower, the main problem was a lot more visible during intensive operations… -
Rambling Trie 1.0.0 released!
January 23, 2017
It’s been a while since I last wrote anything about Rambling Trie (or anything at all really), but I wanted to take the time to talk about all the changes and performance improvements that I’ve made to the gem lately and that culminated in the release of version 1.0.0.
The changes worth highlighting are:
NEW: Ability to dump and load tries from disk
It takes a relatively long time to load all the words from a large dictionary into a new trie in memory. This becomes especially annoying when you have to do this full process every time you restart your application, even though you know that the trie is going to remain constant over time.
To sort this out, you can now use the
Rambling::Trie.load
andRambling::Trie.dump
methods! Like this: -
Version 0.4.2 of the Rambling Trie has been released!
July 28, 2012
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on July 28, 2012.
The Rambling Trie has reached its 0.4.2 version. This one includes the before mentioned changes for the trie instance to behave as an
Enumerable
.This means that having this:
trie = Rambling::Trie.create (%w(some words and other stuff)).each |word| trie << word end
You can do something like this:
trie.each do |word| puts "#{word} is included!" end
As well as:
trie.any? { |word| word.include? 'x' } trie.all? { |word| word.length > 0 }
And any other method included in Ruby core’s
Enumerable
module. Isn’t that cool!?Enjoy!
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New homepage for Rambling Trie
July 28, 2012
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on July 28, 2012.
As done with the jQuery Rambling Slider previously on this week, and as I promised on that post as well, the Rambling Trie now has its own homepage on ramblinglabs.com! Here’s the link:
Rambling Trie | A Ruby implementation of the Trie data structure
It features installation and usage steps as well as a contributing page, and includes the badges from various cool GitHub services (more on that later). It also has a brand new logo, inspired on the trie data structure (and other tree data structures) concept.
Go ahead and check it out!
Still pending:
- Examples page for jQuery Rambling Slider
- Examples page for Rambling Trie
- Examples page for Rambling Slider…
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Rambling Trie 0.4.1 is out!
July 21, 2012
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on July 21, 2012.
Version 0.4.1 of the Rambling Trie is here. It has some minor performance improvements over previous versions, changes in file/directoy structure, as well as a new API entry point, other API methods and more documentation.
You can now instance a new trie like this:
trie = Rambling::Trie.create
DEPRECATION WARNING
The old API entry point
Rambling::Trie.new
is now marked as deprecated and will be removed soon. Use the newRambling::Trie.create
method.
Also, you can add words to the trie using
<<
:trie << 'word'
And check if a word is contained in the trie with
include?
:trie.include? 'word'
You can see more documentation available on the project’s repository…
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Rambling Trie 0.3.3 has been released!
February 13, 2012
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on February 13, 2012.
The new version of the
rambling-trie
gem is out! As I said on my previous post, therambling-trie
is an implementation of the Trie data structure in Ruby.Version 0.3.3 has several performance improvements, and I also added the code’s documentation via Yard. Also, since the previous version (0.3.2), the methods
has_branch_for?
andis_word?
have been fixed for the compressed trie.For the uncompressed trie, the
has_branch_for?
andis_word?
methods work very fast. The compressed trie’sis_word?
method is as fast as it’s uncompressed counterpart, but thehas_branch_for?
is a bit slower.I’ve also added some benchmarking reports for each version of the
rambling…
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Rambling Trie: A custom Trie data structure implementation in Ruby
February 10, 2012
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on February 10, 2012.
We’re proud to announce that our first gem is here!
It’s called
rambling-trie
, and it’s an implementation of the Trie data structure. A Trie is an ordered tree data structure, and it is great for managing dictionaries and for word searching and matching.Now, to install the
rambling-trie
, you can either install it manually by running:gem install rambling-trie
Or, you can add this line to the Gemfile of your application:
gem 'rambling-trie'
To create a new Trie you can do this:
require 'rambling-trie' trie = Rambling::Trie.new
And to add a new word to the Trie, you can call this:
trie.add_branch_from 'word'
Or to automatically load words from a file…