On 7/27/07, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
You might be interested in the gc.set_threshold function. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
