[Snowball-discuss] [mailinglist] Re: python version of porter2

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:38:49PM +0200, Uwe Schmitt wrote:
> The existing Python module supports both and is faster
> than a pure Python implementation.
> 
> Or did I miss something ?

If you aren't making heavy use of the stemmer, then speed probably isn't
your prime concern, and it's more convenient not to have to build the C
module (unless it's already packaged for you).

Cheers,
    Olly