Program very slow to finish

[Rainer Deyke]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1005002107.13101.python-list at python.org...
> No, it was a good first approximation, but measurement speaks louder than
> argument <wink>.  I fiddled Python's dict dealloc routine like so:
>
> for (ep = mp->ma_table; fill > 0; ep++) {
> if (ep->me_key) {
> --fill;
> //Py_DECREF(ep->me_key);
> //Py_XDECREF(ep->me_value);
> /* New code follows. */
> ep->me_key->ob_refcnt -= 1;
> if (ep->me_value)
> ep->me_value->ob_refcnt -= 1;
> }
> }
>
> This does everything the DECREF macros did *except* to call the platform
> free() on the now-dead string-object keys.

It also doesn't call the destroyed objects' destructors.


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