a huge shared read-only data in parallel accesses -- How? multithreading? multiprocessing?

[Valery]

Hi Klauss,

> How's the layout of your data, in terms # of objects vs. bytes used?

dict (or list) of 10K-100K objects. The objects are lists or dicts.
The whole structure eats up to 2+ Gb RAM


> Just to have an idea of the overhead involved in refcount
> externalization (you know, what I mentioned here:http://groups.google.com/group/unladen-swallow/browse_thread/thread/9...
> )

yes, I've understood the idea explained by you there.

regards,
Valery