[Biojava-l] IntegerAlphabet, creating Symbols

[Tilman Sauer]

Hi there!

I have some runtime problems creating a SymbolList using an IntegerAlphabet 
to create the Symbols. That's what my code looks like:

public static SymbolList integerArray2IntegerSymbolList(int[] intAln) 
throws IllegalAlphabetException {

         int len = intAln.length;
         Symbol[] syms = new Symbol[len];

         IntegerAlphabet ialph = IntegerAlphabet.getInstance();

         for(int i=0; i<len; i++) {
                 syms[i] = ialph.getSymbol(intAln[i]);
         }
         end = System.nanoTime();

         SymbolList symList = new SimpleSymbolList(syms,len,ialph);
         return symList;
}

The command IntegerAlphabet ialph = IntegerAlphabet.getInstance() take 0.4 
seconds on my machine and makes up most of runtime of my program. Is there 
a more efficient way to create IntegerSymbols? Thank you, Tilman

Dr. rer. nat. Dipl.-Chem. Tilman Sauer
Department of Bioinformatics
UKG, Georg-August-University of Goettingen
Goldschmidtstr. 1
37077 Goettingen
Germany

phone: +49 551 39 14915
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email: tsa at bioinf.med.uni-goettingen.de