Dec. 23, 2008
5:54 p.m.
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Mike Coleman <tutufan@gmail.com> wrote:
Re "held" and "intern_it": Haha! That's evil and extremely evil, respectively. :-)
P.S. I tried the "held" idea out (interning integers in a list), and unfortunately it didn't make that much difference. In the example I tried, there were 104465178 instances of integers from range(33467). I guess if ints are 12 bytes (per Beazley's book, but not sure if that still holds), then that would correspond to a 1GB reduction. Judging by 'top', it might have been 2 or 3GB instead, from a total of 45G. Mike