Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Float objects also require, as do all Python objects, space to hold a type pointer and a reference count. So each float object requires at least 16 bytes (on most 32-bit boxes, 4 bytes for the type pointer, 4 bytes for the refcount, + 8 bytes for the float). So 100 million float objects requires at least 1.6 billion bytes.
It is a gc issue in the sense that the float-object free-list is both unbounded and immortal. For that matter, so is the int-object free-list. This has been discussed many times over the years on python-dev, but nobody yet has a thoroughly attractive alternative. _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3063> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
