zip() function troubles

[Chris Mellon]

On 7/27/07, Istvan Albert <istvan.albert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 27, 2:16 am, "Terry Reedy" <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
>
> > References are not objects.
>
> yes this a valid objection,
>
> but in all fairness the example in the original post operates on
> comparably sized objects and also exhibited unexpected performance
> degradation
>
> as it turns out the garbage collection is the culprit, I never used to
> have to care about gc (and that's great!), but now that I'm that I'm
> shuffling 1Gb chunks I have to be more careful.
>

You might be interested in the gc.set_threshold function.