At Tuesday 26/9/2006 21:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any way to get Python to release memory back to the
C allocator? I'm currently running a script that goes through
the following steps:
1) Creates a very large number of Python objects to produce
a relatively small data structure that sits in a C extension.
The Python objects consume quite a bit of memory.
2) Releases all the Python objects.
3) Invokes a function of said C extension for further
processing. This step needs as much memory as possible.
I'd like step 2 to return memory to the C allocator so that it
is available to the extension in step 3 (which uses malloc).
Can you modify the C source? If you can, use the Python memory
allocation functions PyMem_Malloc/PyMem_Realloc/PyMem_Free.
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL
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