在Programming Collective Intelligence这本书中,我发现了以下函数来计算PageRank：

def calculatepagerank(self,iterations=20):
    # clear out the current PageRank tables
    self.con.execute("drop table if exists pagerank")
    self.con.execute("create table pagerank(urlid primary key,score)")
    self.con.execute("create index prankidx on pagerank(urlid)")

    # initialize every url with a PageRank of 1.0
    self.con.execute("insert into pagerank select rowid,1.0 from urllist")
    self.dbcommit()

    for i in range(iterations):
        print "Iteration %d" % i
        for (urlid,) in self.con.execute("select rowid from urllist"):
            pr=0.15

            # Loop through all the pages that link to this one
            for (linker,) in self.con.execute("select distinct fromid from link where toid=%d" % urlid):
                # Get the PageRank of the linker
                linkingpr=self.con.execute("select score from pagerank where urlid=%d" % linker).fetchone()[0]

                # Get the total number of links from the linker
                linkingcount=self.con.execute("select count(*) from link where fromid=%d" % linker).fetchone()[0]

                pr+=0.85*(linkingpr/linkingcount)

            self.con.execute("update pagerank set score=%f where urlid=%d" % (pr,urlid))
        self.dbcommit()

但是,由于每次迭代中都有所有SQL查询,因此此功能非常慢

>>> import cProfile
>>> cProfile.run("crawler.calculatepagerank()")
         2262510 function calls in 136.006 CPU seconds

   Ordered by: standard name

ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
     1    0.000    0.000  136.006  136.006 <string>:1(<module>)
     1   20.826   20.826  136.006  136.006 searchengine.py:179(calculatepagerank)
    21    0.000    0.000    0.528    0.025 searchengine.py:27(dbcommit)
    21    0.528    0.025    0.528    0.025 {method 'commit' of 'sqlite3.Connecti
     1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler
1339864  112.602    0.000  112.602    0.000 {method 'execute' of 'sqlite3.Connec 
922600    2.050    0.000    2.050    0.000 {method 'fetchone' of 'sqlite3.Cursor' 
     1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {range}

因此,我优化了功能并提出了以下建议：

def calculatepagerank2(self,iterations=20):
    # clear out the current PageRank tables
    self.con.execute("drop table if exists pagerank")
    self.con.execute("create table pagerank(urlid primary key,score)")
    self.con.execute("create index prankidx on pagerank(urlid)")

    # initialize every url with a PageRank of 1.0
    self.con.execute("insert into pagerank select rowid,1.0 from urllist")
    self.dbcommit()

    inlinks={}
    numoutlinks={}
    pagerank={}

    for (urlid,) in self.con.execute("select rowid from urllist"):
        inlinks[urlid]=[]
        numoutlinks[urlid]=0
        # Initialize pagerank vector with 1.0
        pagerank[urlid]=1.0
        # Loop through all the pages that link to this one
        for (inlink,) in self.con.execute("select distinct fromid from link where toid=%d" % urlid):
            inlinks[urlid].append(inlink)
            # get number of outgoing links from a page        
            numoutlinks[urlid]=self.con.execute("select count(*) from link where fromid=%d" % urlid).fetchone()[0]            

    for i in range(iterations):
        print "Iteration %d" % i

        for urlid in pagerank:
            pr=0.15
            for link in inlinks[urlid]:
                linkpr=pagerank[link]
                linkcount=numoutlinks[link]
                pr+=0.85*(linkpr/linkcount)
            pagerank[urlid]=pr
    for urlid in pagerank:
        self.con.execute("update pagerank set score=%f where urlid=%d" % (pagerank[urlid],urlid))
    self.dbcommit()

此函数快很多倍(但对所有临时词典使用更多的内存),因为它避免了每次迭代中不必要的SQL查询：

>>> cProfile.run("crawler.calculatepagerank2()")
     90070 function calls in 3.527 CPU seconds
Ordered by: standard name

ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
     1    0.004    0.004    3.527    3.527 <string>:1(<module>)
     1    1.154    1.154    3.523    3.523 searchengine.py:207(calculatepagerank2
     2    0.000    0.000    0.058    0.029 searchengine.py:27(dbcommit)
 23065    0.013    0.000    0.013    0.000 {method 'append' of 'list' objects}
     2    0.058    0.029    0.058    0.029 {method 'commit' of 'sqlite3.Connectio
     1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler
 43932    2.261    0.000    2.261    0.000 {method 'execute' of 'sqlite3.Connecti
 23065    0.037    0.000    0.037    0.000 {method 'fetchone' of 'sqlite3.Cursor'
     1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {range}

但是是否有可能进一步减少SQL查询的数量以进一步提高功能的速度？
更新：修复了calculatepagerank2()中的缩进.

解决方法:

如果您有一个非常大的数据库(例如,WWW中的#个记录〜#个页面),以类似于书中建议的方式使用该数据库,那是因为您将无法将所有数据保留在内存中.

如果您的数据集足够小,则可以通过不进行太多查询来(可能)改善第二个版本.尝试用以下内容替换第一个循环：

for urlid, in self.con.execute('select rowid from urllist'):
    inlinks[urlid] = []
    numoutlinks[urlid] = 0
    pagerank[urlid] = 1.0

for src, dest in self.con.execute('select fromid, toid from link'):
    inlinks[dest].append(src)
    numoutlinks[src] += 1

这个版本只执行2个查询,而不是O(n ^ 2)个查询.