Re: Large list in memory slows Python

2012-01-04 Thread Benoit Thiell
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Benoit Thiell wrote: > >> I am experiencing a puzzling problem with both Python 2.4 and Python >> 2.6 on CentOS 5. I'm looking for an explanation of the problem and >> possible solutions. Here is what I did: >> >> Python 2.4.3

Re: Large list in memory slows Python

2012-01-03 Thread Peter Otten
Benoit Thiell wrote: > I am experiencing a puzzling problem with both Python 2.4 and Python > 2.6 on CentOS 5. I'm looking for an explanation of the problem and > possible solutions. Here is what I did: > > Python 2.4.3 (#1, Sep 21 2011, 19:55:41) > IPython 0.8.4 -- An enhanced Interactive Python

Large list in memory slows Python

2012-01-03 Thread Benoit Thiell
Hi. I am experiencing a puzzling problem with both Python 2.4 and Python 2.6 on CentOS 5. I'm looking for an explanation of the problem and possible solutions. Here is what I did: Python 2.4.3 (#1, Sep 21 2011, 19:55:41) IPython 0.8.4 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. In [1]: def test(): ...