Steve Holden <steve <at> holdenweb.com> writes: > I believe the OP engendered a certain amount of confusion by describing > object deallocation as being performed by the garbage collector. So he > perhaps didn't understand that even decref'ing all the objects only > referenced by the dict will take a huge amount of time unless there's > enough real memory to hold it.
He said he has 64GB RAM so I assume all his working set was in memory, not swapped out. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
