On 10/25/05, Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:25:40 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > > I don't think it is unacceptably high however. Has anyone profiled the > > usage of PyGTK applications. Can it be improved? > > http://evanjones.ca/memoryallocator/ > > I'm not sure if any work has been done on this since PyCon 2005, but if > not then Python will always have problems. Summary of paper: its memory > allocator optimises for CPU speed over memory usage by never freeing > anything, instead it runs its own heaps which just grow and grow over > time. >
You can call the garbage collector to cleanup unsused objects in memory as frequently as you wish. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
