On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Alec Taylor <alec.tayl...@gmail.com> wrote: > What would you recommend I use to compare data-structures and > algorithms on space and time? (runtime)
For the latter metric, one of the profiling modules: http://docs.python.org/library/debug.html I'd start with timeit and go from there: http://docs.python.org/library/timeit.html For the former metric, you can write your own memory use measurement utility function on top of: http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.getsizeof Or there is doubtless some Unix tool(s) you could use to get a more crude measure of the total memory used by the Python interpreter process. Cheers, Chris -- http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
