The key change is replacing "d1 = load_freq_history(path_prefix + 'static/frequency/ferquency.p)" with "d1 = load_freq_history(user_word_list)"
in function get_today_article() from Article.py. Now, with a user_word_list of size about 500, the next article can be loaded within 100ms.
The new d1 is much smaller than the old one, therefore the following computation "d3 = get_difficulty_level_for_user(d1, d2)" is much faster.
The students did not feel that loading next article is slow; this is because their frequency.p is quite small.
Also log information in app/log.txt
Lan Hui
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Hui Lan
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