[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Paul Rubin wrote: >> The problem here is with a high allocation rate, you have to GC a lot >> more often, which typically involves copying live data. > > This is last century's issue. Copying data, RAM to RAM, is nearly free > using the Intel architecture.
What's "the Intel architecture?" Do you mean the x86_64 architecture that was actually developed by AMD, or x86 for x > some number, or do you actually mean IA64? > > This short article, http://www.martinrinehart.com/articles/repz.html > explains why. > > I'd use one int per clock as a rule of thumb for the current copy rate > in a single-core CPU. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
