lists, performance..

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1036082436.18279.python-list at python.org>,
gabor  <gabor at realtime.sk> wrote:
>
>i wanted to deep-copy because the created big list will be used in a
>different thread than the small ones... so i thouhgt let's have it as
>safe as it can be...

That's a tricky question.  If you eventually want to reflect the changes
in the big last back to the smaller lists, you may be better off doing
locking instead of copying.
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