Do some optimising to make it better work with Shakespeare. The weighted generator now does things in parallel!

MarkovGrams/UnweightedMarkovChain.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
+using MarkovGrams.Utilities;
 
 namespace MarkovGrams
 {
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ namespace MarkovGrams
 				// The substring that the next ngram in the chain needs to start with
 				string nextStartsWith = Mode == GenerationMode.CharacterLevel ? lastNgram.Substring(1) : string.Join(" ", lastNgram.Split(' ').Skip(1));
 				// Get a list of possible n-grams we could choose from next
-				List<string> nextNgrams = ngrams.FindAll(gram => gram.StartsWith(nextStartsWith));
+				List<string> nextNgrams = ngrams.FindAll(gram => gram.StartsWithFast(nextStartsWith));
 				choiceCounts.Add(nextNgrams.Count);
 				// If there aren't any choices left, we can't exactly keep adding to the new string any more :-(
 				if(nextNgrams.Count == 0)

MarkovGrams/Utilities/LinqExtensions.cs

@@ -20,5 +20,21 @@ namespace MarkovGrams.Utilities
 			list.RemoveAt(index);
 			return item;
 		}
+
+		public static int CountCharInstances(this string str, char[] targets)
+		{
+			int result = 0;
+			for (int i = 0; i < str.Length; i++) {
+				for (int t = 0; t < targets.Length; t++)
+					if (str[i] == targets[t]) result++;
+			}
+			return result;
+		}
+
+		public static bool StartsWithFast(this string str, string target)
+		{
+			if (str.Length < target.Length) return false;
+			return str.Substring(0, target.Length) == target;
+		}
 	}
 }

MarkovGrams/Utilities/WeightedRandom.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 using System;
+using System.Collections.Concurrent;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
 
 namespace SBRL.Algorithms
 {
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ namespace SBRL.Algorithms
 	{
 		private Random rand = new Random();
 
-		protected Dictionary<ItemType, double> weights = new Dictionary<ItemType, double>();
+		protected ConcurrentDictionary<ItemType, double> weights = new ConcurrentDictionary<ItemType, double>();
 
 		public int Count {
 			get {
@@ -55,10 +57,11 @@ namespace SBRL.Algorithms
 			if (items.Count == 0)
 				throw new ArgumentException("Error: The items dictionary provided is empty!");
 
-			double totalWeight = items.Values.Aggregate((double a, double b) => a + b);
+			double totalWeight = items.Values.Sum();
-			foreach (KeyValuePair<ItemType, double> itemData in items) {
+			Parallel.ForEach(items, (KeyValuePair<ItemType, double> itemData) => {
-				weights.Add(itemData.Key, itemData.Value / totalWeight);
+				if (!weights.TryAdd(itemData.Key, itemData.Value / totalWeight))
-			}
+					throw new Exception("WeightedRandom: Failed to add new weight definition to weights ConcurrentDictionary!");
+			});
 		}
 		public void ClearContents()
 		{

MarkovGrams/WeightedMarkovChain.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 using System;
+using System.Collections.Concurrent;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using MarkovGrams.Utilities;
 using SBRL.Algorithms;
 
@@ -57,9 +59,13 @@ namespace MarkovGrams
 				if (!StartOnUppercase)
 					wrandom.SetContents(ngrams);
 				else {
-					Dictionary<string, double> filteredNGrams = new Dictionary<string, double>();
+					ConcurrentDictionary<string, double> filteredNGrams = new ConcurrentDictionary<string, double>();
-					foreach (KeyValuePair<string, double> pair in ngrams.Where((pair) => char.IsUpper(pair.Key[0])))
+					Parallel.ForEach(ngrams, (KeyValuePair<string, double> pair) => {
-						filteredNGrams.Add(pair.Key, pair.Value);
+						if (!char.IsUpper(pair.Key[0])) return;
+						if (!filteredNGrams.TryAdd(pair.Key, pair.Value))
+							throw new Exception("Error: Couldn't add to uppercase staging n-gram ConcurrentDictionary!");
+					});
+
 					if (filteredNGrams.Count() == 0)
 						throw new Exception($"Error: No valid starting ngrams were found (StartOnUppercase: {StartOnUppercase}).");
 					wrandom.SetContents(filteredNGrams);
@@ -87,20 +93,24 @@ namespace MarkovGrams
 		{
 			string result = RandomNgram();
 			string lastNgram = result;
-			List<int> choiceCounts = new List<int>(); int i = 0;
+			ConcurrentBag<int> choiceCounts = new ConcurrentBag<int>(); int i = 0;
-			while((Mode == GenerationMode.CharacterLevel ? result.Length : result.Split(' ').Length) < length)
+			while((Mode == GenerationMode.CharacterLevel ? result.Length : result.CountCharInstances(" ".ToCharArray()) + 1) < length)
 			{
 				wrandom.ClearContents();
 				// The substring that the next ngram in the chain needs to start with
 				string nextStartsWith = Mode == GenerationMode.CharacterLevel ? lastNgram.Substring(1) : string.Join(" ", lastNgram.Split(' ').Skip(1));
 				// Get a list of possible n-grams we could choose from next
-				Dictionary<string, double> convNextNgrams = new Dictionary<string, double>();
+				ConcurrentDictionary<string, double> convNextNgrams = new ConcurrentDictionary<string, double>();
-				ngrams.Where(gram_data => gram_data.Key.StartsWith(nextStartsWith))
+				Parallel.ForEach(ngrams, (KeyValuePair<string, double> ngramData) => {
-				      .ForEach((KeyValuePair<string, double> ngramData) => convNextNgrams.Add(ngramData.Key, ngramData.Value));
+					if (!ngramData.Key.StartsWithFast(nextStartsWith)) return;
 
-				choiceCounts.Add(convNextNgrams.Count);
+					if (!convNextNgrams.TryAdd(ngramData.Key, ngramData.Value))
+						throw new Exception("Error: Failed to add to staging ngram concurrent dictionary");
+				});
+
+				choiceCounts.Add(convNextNgrams.Count());
 				// If there aren't any choices left, we can't exactly keep adding to the new string any more :-(
-				if(convNextNgrams.Count() == 0)
+				if(convNextNgrams.Count == 0)
 					break;
 				wrandom.SetContents(convNextNgrams);
 				// Pick a random n-gram from the list
@@ -109,7 +119,7 @@ namespace MarkovGrams
 				if (Mode == GenerationMode.CharacterLevel)
 					result += nextNgram[nextNgram.Length - 1];
 				else
-					result += ' ' + nextNgram.Split(' ').Last();
+					result += ' ' + nextNgram.Substring(nextNgram.LastIndexOf(' ') + 1);
 				lastNgram = nextNgram; i++;
 			}
 			wrandom.ClearContents();