>> sage: a = range(10**8) # takes a lot of memory >> sage: del a # free the memory > > Ok, so now, I understand why it takes the memory: a list was created.
Using xrange instead of range will also avoid creating the list even without cdef'ing a (the code is still slow of course). But then the code will not immediately work in Python 3, I guess. Best, Johan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.