On Nov 15, 4:11 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> Unless you're accusing both myself and the original poster of outright > lying, of faking our results, what's your explanation? I don't attribute it to malice, I think you're simply measuring something else. You both must be having some some system setting that forces your application to swap disk. Do you really believe that you cannot create or delete a large dictionary with python versions less than 2.5 (on a 64 bit or multi- cpu system)? That a bug of this magnitude has not been noticed until someone posted on clp? > Have you tried > running our code on a 64-bit or multi-CPU system to see for yourself, the answer is: yes and yes, I see nothing out of the ordinary. i. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list