On Jul 27, 2:16 am, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> References are not objects. yes this a valid objection, but in all fairness the example in the original post operates on comparably sized objects and also exhibited unexpected performance degradation as it turns out the garbage collection is the culprit, I never used to have to care about gc (and that's great!), but now that I'm that I'm shuffling 1Gb chunks I have to be more careful. best, Istvan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list