spaCy/docs/source/why/index.rst

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Why
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Benchmarks
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Efficiency
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+--------+-------+--------------+--------------+
| System | Time | Words/second | Speed Factor |
+--------+-------+--------------+--------------+
| NLTK | 6m4s | 89,000 | 1.00 |
+--------+-------+--------------+--------------+
| spaCy | 9.5s | 3,093,000 | 38.30 |
+--------+-------+--------------+--------------+
Accuracy
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The comparison refers to 30 million words from the English Gigaword, on
a Maxbook Air. For context, calling string.split() on the data completes in
about 5s.
Pros and Cons
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