On Jan 4, 2008 10:34 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As various people pointed out to me: > http://wingolog.org/archives/2007/11/27/reducing-the-footprint-of-python-applications
It did; it's what lead me to Heapy. > Aside from that (rant), I seriously dislike Python's memory management and > even more the fairly arcane ways people have to go about > debugging/troubleshooting some 600 MB to 2-3 GB(!) of resident memory use by > Python. I agree, but in many cases, the language is powerful enough, that we're just waiting for the implementation to catch up. > Personally I consider this the weakest point of Python. Given the fact there > is a garbage collector this sort of keeping track of memory seems a bit > contradictory to the concept of garbage collection. There are examples of how even the best garbage collection can still miss a few details, mainly because certain objects are holding on to information they don't actually need, and the documentation for Heapy even demonstrates an example in Tkinter. -Yaakov -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
