On 2002/03/25 at 09:42 Kirby Urner wrote: > return reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,s) >in ad_tag() is a bottleneck, which is better replaced with: > > return ''.join(s) Changed it. Makes quite a difference. >If you want to test the same file (nothing special to look >at, just long ~120K of mostly cylinders), I've put it at: Just tried a 60 MB mesh, not fun :( I stopped it after 15 min and the use of ~1GB memory. Ingo