On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:30 -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 19:58 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > using python on embedded devices in my experiene isn't such a good idea, > > especially for long running tasks, given the tendency of python < 2.6 to > > leak like a victorian pipe. > > Don't you mean < 2.5? The arena-freeing obmalloc landed in 2.5. Are > there other specific problems in 2.5 that cause it not to release > memory?
the obmalloc patch is just part of the memory management woes, as far as I understand by reading http://bugs.python.org/issue1123430 - which might be outdated. in any case, even if memory management issues had been magically fixed by pixie fairie dust, there's still the start up time of the python interpreter and the fact that it's far too easy to get a leaky binding given the sorry state of the CPython API. but I'm just a python binding developer, and I cannot guarantee to have any sanity left. ;-) ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
