Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Several apps using 4Mb each shouldn't be very much memory (maybe > 20Mb at most). You didn't say how much memory was in your machine, > but 256Mb of memory will cost you no more than $50. Not really > worth a lot of effort.
That is bogus reasoning. I can't add 256mb to the machine I'm typing on right now for any amount of money, let alone $50. It's an older laptop, it's maxed out at 512 meg, and I can't add any more to it, period. An even older laptop that I still use from time to time is maxed out at 72 meg. And my Sharp Zaurus (Linux handheld) has 32 meg and is not expandable. If Python claims to be a lightweight language, it should not present any obstacles to running on machines of that class. It's already slightly annoying that Python can't run well in an 8 meg Palm Pilot, since there were many Common Lisp implementations that ran tolerably in less memory than that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
