Python and the need for speed
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Thu Apr 13 05:00:07 EDT 2017
Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:
> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> As swapping is no longer considered normal on modern computers,
>
> It isn't? When did that happen?
Thing is, the moment you start thrashing, the game is over.
Doubly so for Python, whose garbage collector will grind your machine to
a halt as it is traversing the process's heap (which is on the disk).
Marko
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