why is my hash being weird??

[Steve Holden]

pycraze wrote:
> Surely adopting the above method is much better than what i have
> approached earlier . The main reason i did adopt this exercise was when
> i have to marshal a 20 - 40 MB above test.py file to the disk , the
> simple load of the test.py will sky rocket my virtual memory
> consumption.
> 
>       I was bit troubled with this bottleneck , so i wanted to do some
> research before i come to some conclusions .
> 
> Anyways , i really appreciate ur enthusiasm to helping me come to a
> conclusion
> 
> Dennis
> 
I'd be interested to know what other languages you have tested with 
20-40MB source files, and what conclusions you have arrived at about 
them. Particularly since your initial conclusion about Python was 
"dictionaries are weird and each entry uses approximately 1kB" :-)

regards
  Steve
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