O(n^2) is bad - can it be fixed?

[Isaac To Kar Keung]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Peters <tim.one at home.com> writes:

    Tim> It can be *delayed*, but Win9x VM management is such that address
    Tim> space will still get fragmented beyond hope unless Python also
    Tim> takes over allocating heaps.  This gets absurd.

Disclaimer: I don't run a WinXX OS, so I've got no way to test whatever I
say here.

I'm actually wondering how it can be this bad in WinXX.  If it can make it
more than say 50% of the space unusable due to fragmentation, then I agree
that it is so hopelessly broken that Python shouldn't deal with it at all.
Yes, at all.  Python, as an application, don't have the VM tools to do this
efficiently.

Regards,
Isaac.