Memory problem

[John Machin]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
> > Incredible. That's only 34 MB. What is the size of your paging file?
> > What memory guzzlers were you running at the same time? What was the
> > Task Manager "Performance" pane showing while your test was running?
> > What version of Python?
>
> He didn't say Windows (so far).

Yes he did -- reread his message, which I quoted in the message which
you have *partially* quoted above.
"""
I use Windows XP x64 with 4GB RAM. 
"""

Cheers,
John