On Jun 15, 3:16 am, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But that change went into the svn trunk on 11-May-2008; perhaps the OP > is using a production release which would have the previous version, > which is merely "newsize = size + 1024;". > > Do people really generate 32MB pyc files, or is stopping doubling at > 32MB just a safety valve in case someone/something runs amok?
Indeed. I (the OP) am using a production release which has the 1k linear growth. I am seeing the problems with ~5MB and ~10MB sizes. Apparently this will be improved greatly in Python 2.6, at least up to the 32MB limit. Thanks all for responding. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list