BlueBird <p...@freehackers.org> wrote: > I have a program that manages several thousands instances of one > object. To reduce memory > consumption, I want of course that specific object to have the > smallest memory footpring possible. > > I have a few ideas that I want to experiment with, like using > __slots__, using a tuple or using a dict. My > question is: how do I know the memory footprint of a given python > object ? I could not find any > builtin functions for this in the documentation.
I managed to 1/3 the memory requirement of our program by using __slots__ on the most common class (several hundred thousand instances!). When doing these optimisations I ran a repeatable script and measured the total memory usage using the OS tools (top in my case). -- Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
