There's an assumption in the question here that all programs are CPU bound.
I actually do not think so. From prior discussion about what the program is doing, I got the impression that it was trying to hold gigabytes of data in RAM. Isn't that still true? If so, then I would be very surprised if the program were not thrashing virtual memory. Under such conditions, give up on any assumptions about program speed being related to CPU speed. It's hitting disk hard, and that's a Game Over. Under heavy virtual memory swapping conditions, it doesn't matter how fast your CPU is: the time that your program is taking is due to the physical act of moving spindles and spinning disks of metal around. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
