pycraze wrote: > Surely adopting the above method is much better than what i have > approached earlier . The main reason i did adopt this exercise was when > i have to marshal a 20 - 40 MB above test.py file to the disk , the > simple load of the test.py will sky rocket my virtual memory > consumption. > > I was bit troubled with this bottleneck , so i wanted to do some > research before i come to some conclusions . > > Anyways , i really appreciate ur enthusiasm to helping me come to a > conclusion > > Dennis > I'd be interested to know what other languages you have tested with 20-40MB source files, and what conclusions you have arrived at about them. Particularly since your initial conclusion about Python was "dictionaries are weird and each entry uses approximately 1kB" :-)
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