Steve Holden wrote: > You have a strange idea of "nearly free" ... > > Extending an integer array from 100 to 150 items is a pretty puny > operation when you compare it with the amount of data that might need to > be moved during a compactifying garbage collection of a 20MB Python > program image.
20 MBs = 5 M 32-bit words = 1.25 millis to move half of them on a 2GHz machine. Don't know how much a milli costs where you live. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
