Newbie: Python & ADFGVX Cipher Cracking?

[Andreas Lobinger]

Aloha,

Christian Meissner wrote:
> Here my 'top', while running it with the whole alphabet:
> Processes:  58 total, 3 running, 55 sleeping... 149 threads 20:07:04
> Load Avg:  1.39, 1.87, 1.78     CPU usage:  87.7% user, 12.3% sys, 0.0% 
> idle
> SharedLibs: num =  113, resident = 9.20M code,  704K data, 2.38M LinkEdit
> MemRegions: num =  8629, resident =  632M + 2.68M private, 34.0M shared
> PhysMem:  79.2M wired,  451M active,  226M inactive,  757M used, 10.9M free
> VM: 4.60G + 74.9M   32522(0) pageins, 26052(424) pageouts
> 
>   PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE VSIZE
>   634 python      92.1%  4:51.96   1    11  2308   569M+  372K   326M- 
>  614M-
>   561 bash         0.0%  0:00.13   1    13    21   108K   912K   

And here mine...

load averages:  1.01,  0.92,  0.57                           11:09:12
88 processes:  86 sleeping, 2 on cpu
CPU states: 87.1%idle, 12.5%user,  0.3%kernel,  0.0%iowait,  0.0%swap
Memory: 16G real, 14G free, 1395M swap in use, 31G swap free

    PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
  13062 lobinger   4  40    0 1196M 1191M cpu/7   12:19 12.49% python
  13086 lobinger   1  58    0 7040K 4824K sleep    0:00  0.02% dtterm
     69 root      15  41    0 8768K 7984K sleep   46:41  0.01% picld

I didn't claim it as a memory efficient solution...

Wishing a happy day
		LOBI