Python hits the spot
Pär Kurlberg
kurlberg at math.chalmers.se
Sun Jun 23 16:19:51 EDT 2002
> It's no wonder that 1000 lines of uncommented code behave like that, taking
> into account that you were trying to integrate several (Tcl/Tk, Fortran, C,
> Python) systems in a hurry, and, I presume, not knowing most of them.
Funny you should mention this. On my laptop (IBM Thinkpad with 128
megs of ram) the following two-liner gets me a lockup (i.e. keyboard
and mouse completely unresponsive, powertoggle needed):
for i in range(50*1000*1000):
pass
(I am serious.) Happened some time ago, but I never got around to
filing a bug report (this thread was a good reminder.) Seems like the
python code exercises the linux VM/swap to the breaking point. It is
rather annoying that a user space program can do this...
Can someone else reproduce this behaviour? (Make sure to quit all
important applications before you try!)
Some trivia:
Python 2.2.1 (#1, Jun 12 2002, 17:57:17)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk)] on linux2
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