Populating a dictionary, fast [SOLVED SOLVED]

Aaron Watters aaron.watters at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 14:53:56 EST 2007


On Nov 15, 2:11 pm, Istvan Albert <istvan.alb... at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is nothing wrong with neither creating nor deleting
> dictionaries.

I suspect what happened is this: on 64 bit
machines the data structures for creating dictionaries
are larger (because pointers take twice as much space),
so you run into memory contention issues sooner than
on 32 bit machines, for similar memory sizes.
If there is something deeper going
on please correct me, I would very much like to know.

   -- Aaron Watters

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