[pypy-dev] Re: extreme slowness

[Michael Hudson]

Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:

> A few small hacks allowed me to pass the issue currently blocking
> (attached, why not).  Then I thought it got stuck in an infinite loop,
> but no, it was merely being very, very slow.  It takes about 15
> minutes to crash on tismerysoft.de, a 3 Ghz P4, so I'd guess at least
> an hour on this machine, maybe quite a bit more than that.

Or alternatively it will run my machine out of swap.  Oh well!

I guess all the debugging history stuff we keep doesn't exactly help
from this point of view.

Cheers,
mwh

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