[Python-Dev] extremely slow exit for program having huge (45G) dict (python 2.5.2) (original) (raw)

Mike Coleman tutufan at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 19:13:33 CET 2008


On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:20 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

BTW: Rather than using a huge in-memory dict, I'd suggest to either use an on-disk dictionary such as the ones found in mxBeeBase or a database.

I really want this to work in-memory. I have 64G RAM, and I'm only trying to use 45G of it ("only" 45G :-), and I don't need the results to persist after the program finishes.

Python should be able to do this. I don't want to hear "Just use Perl instead" from my co-workers... ;-)



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