[charlie strauss]
> Below is a simple program that will cause python to intermittently
> stop executing for a few seconds. it's 100% reproducible on my machine.
Any program that creates a great many long-lived container objects
will behave similarly during the creation phase. Others have
explained why. Here's a simpler example:
from time import time
xs = []
i = 0
while 1:
i += 1
s = time()
xs.append([[1, 2] for dummy in xrange(1000)])
f = time()
if f-s > 0.25:
print "time", f-s, "on try", i
if i % 100 == 0:
print "xs made:", i
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