On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:39:42 -0800, <tbour...@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
Second and more
importantly it's the performance penalty from allocating a large number
of
lists produced from the slices and the copy of the references.
Ah, I see what you were getting at -- thanks for clarifying.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Rami Chowdhury
<rami.chowdh...@gmail.com>wrote:
I'm not sure you're understanding the point others have been making. A
list item is merely another reference to an existing object -- it
doesn't copy the object in any way.
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