Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should garbage-collecting 16 million strings really take 20+ > minutes?
It shouldn't. For testing purposes I've created a set of 16 milion
strings like this:
s = set()
for n in xrange(16000000):
s.add('somerandomprefix' + str(n)) # prefix makes the strings a bit larger
It takes maybe about 20 seconds to create the set. Quitting Python
takes 4-5 seconds. This is stock Python 2.5.1.
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