Computer Science question (python list is slow with my cruddy algorithm )

Fri Aug 23 05:03:56 EDT 2002

* Mr. Neutron <nicktsocanos at charter.net> [2002-08-23 04:39 -0400]:
> Hi,
> I am working on a program that uses a list of lists
> 
> MyList = [ [0] * 32767 for i in range(32767) ]

Do you just want a 2D-array of this size? I'd suppose Numeric has a fast
array implementation.

Btw. on my 32-bit machine, your array would take

>>> 32768**2 * 4L
4294967296L

4 Gigabytes of memory, so do you /really/ need such a large array?

Gerhard
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