Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When you are allocating a lot of objects without releasing them the garbage > collector kicks in to look for cycles. Try switching it off:
I think that is the answer. The zip took almost 2 minutes without turning gc off, but takes 1.25 seconds with gc off. It turned a linear-time algorithm into a quadratic one. I think something is broken about a design where that can happen. Maybe Pypy will have a generational GC someday. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
