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subhabangalore@gmail.com schreef:
> Dear Group,
> I am Sri Subhabrata Banerjee writing from India. I am running a small
> program which exploits around 12 1 to 2 KB .txt files. I am using MS
> Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Python 2.6 where IDLE is GUI. The text
> is plain ASCII text. The RAM of the machine is around 2 GB. To run
> the program the machine is becoming dead slow and it is executing
> only after several minutes. I am shocked as I have run hugely loaded
> Statistical Learning stuff only on 516MB RAM on Python using Windows
> XP only. And that too on a laptop. I am not getting. I discussed the
> issue with my system administrator and he increased the RAM to 8GB
> result improved by 30% but not satisfactory speed. May any one
> suggest me what may be the likely issue?

Does the program generate a lot of text? Do you run the program in IDLE? 
IDLE gets very slow when it has to show a lot of text. Try running the 
program from the command line to see if that offers any improvement.

Best regards,
Roel