Program very slow to finish

[Paul Rubin]

Roeland Rengelink <r.b.rigilink at chello.nl> writes:
> You've convinced/reassured me that it can't be Python. I'm not convinced
> it's the cache. That basically leaves free(). I'm curious if anybody
> else has seen this behaviour. I hope some more people try this

Next thing to do is profile the python interpreter running those
examples.  I may try to get around to this.