On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:06:08 +0100, MRAB wrote:
> On 27/06/2012 18:33, subhabangal...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Dear Group,
>> I am Sri Subhabrata Banerjee writing from India. I am running a small
>> program which exploits around 12 1 to 2 KB .txt files. I am using MS
>> Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Python 2.6 where IDLE is GUI. The text is
>> plain ASCII text. The RAM of the machine is around 2 GB. To run the
>> program the machine is becoming dead slow and it is executing only
>> after several minutes.
[...]
> Could you post the program here (you say that it's small) so that we can
> see what you're trying to do.
I bet that he is building up long strings using repeated string
concatenation:
s = ''
for item in many_items:
s += item
instead of accumulating them into a list, then joining them all at once.
Repeated string concatenation can be *painfully* slow, especially under
Windows. (For some reason, the details of Windows memory management
sometimes prevents the string concat optimization from working.)
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Steven
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