Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tested this on a linux server system with 4Gb of RAM > a = [ 0 ] * 10**7 > takes miliseconds, but say the > b = zip(a,a) > will take a very long time to finish:
Do a top or vmstat while that is happening and see if you are swapping. You are allocating 10 million ints and 10 million tuple nodes, = 20 million objects. Although, even at 100 bytes per object that would be 1GB which would fit in your machine easily. Is it a 64 bit cpu? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
