Steve M: > ... discusses the problem with memory allocation in CPython. > Apparently CPython is not good at, or incapable of, releasing > memory back to the operating system.
I'm fairly sure Java does not give memory back to the operating system either. A quick search did not give a definitive answer but there were complaints from people about not being able to do this. Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list