Re: Python resident memory retention & Evan Jones' improvements

2009-10-03 Thread Matt Ernst
On Oct 2, 4:47 pm, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > There are two things you need to be aware of in this situation: > > - not all Python's memory is allocated through Python's specialised >    malloc() - int and float objects in particular (in 2.x at least) are >    allocated directly via a privately man

Re: Python resident memory retention & Evan Jones' improvements

2009-10-02 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Matt Ernst wrote: {...} I thought Evan Jones altered Python to deal with this very problem, and the change went into the release of 2.5. Here is Tim Peters announcing the change: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/061991.html He included this simple test program to show th