[Biojava-l] issue with translating codons with N

[LAW Andy]

On 20 Sep 2013, at 16:53, Andy Yates <ayates at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Nick,
> 
> It depends on the number of translations you're doing. We did some quite large performance testing Pjotr Prins for his chapter in Evolutionary Genomics book and those changes where a direct result of that *. I think the right solution is to revert to using the map already available in the class
> 
> Andy
> 
> * I wish I still had the stats from before & after this change to show what the performance impact was.
> 

I'm surprised at that, given that the lookup is essentially from a small, finite set. But then again, the quicker version seems to have been giving the wrong answer so that's probably not a trade off one would want to consider :o{

Later,

Andy
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