[Python-Dev] iterzip() (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas@python.ca
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:13:20 -0700

Jeremy Hylton wrote:

Note that there's a net excess of allocations in the storetup() case, so we invoke the garbage collector every n/700 times through the loop.

That's the dirty culprit. :-) With the GC disabled:

justpush 0.81 justzip 0.75

Perhaps we should raise the default threshold.

Neil