Catherine Moroney wrote:
> I'm writing a python program that reads in a very large
> "pickled" file (consisting of one large dictionary and one
> small one), and parses the results out to several binary and hdf
> files.
>
> The program works fine, but the memory load is huge. The size of
> the pi
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Catherine Moroney wrote:
> I'm writing a python program that reads in a very large
> "pickled" file (consisting of one large dictionary and one
> small one), and parses the results out to several binary and hdf
> files.
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> The program works fine, but the memory load is huge. The size of
> the pickle file on disk is about 900 Meg so I would theoretically
> expect my program to consume about twice that (the dictionary
> contained in the pickle file plus its repackaging into other formats),
> but instead my program n