[Python-Dev] extremely slow exit for program having huge (45G) dict (python 2.5.2)

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:45:11 am Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve <at> pearwood.info> writes:
> > In November 2007, a similar problem was reported on the
> > comp.lang.python newsgroup. 370MB was large enough to demonstrate
> > the problem. I don't know if a bug was ever reported.
>
> Do you still reproduce it on trunk?
> I've tried your scripts on my machine and they work fine, even if I
> leave garbage collecting enabled during the process.
> (dual core 64-bit machine but in 32-bit mode)

I'm afraid that sometime over the last year, I replaced my computer's 
motherboard, and now I can't reproduce the behaviour at all. I've tried 
two different boxes, with both Python 2.6.1 and 2.5.1.


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Steven D'Aprano