Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > Also, I'd be pretty wary of caching large chunks of unused memory. People > already have a lot of trouble understanding their program's memory usage, > and getting rid of 'greedy free' will make this even worse.
A cache would only be needed when there is a lot of computing going on, so one could set an "early expire date" on chached chunks. Anything older than a second or two could be returned. A cache would thus require a garbage collector thread. Sturla _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
