On 4/23/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kirat Singh wrote: > > The reason I looked into this to begin with was that my code used up a > > bunch of memory which was traceable to lots of little objects with > > instance dicts, so it seemed that if instancedicts took less memory I > > wouldn't have to go and add __slots__ to a bunch of my classes, or > > rewrite things as tuples/lists, etc. > > Ah. In that case, I would be curious if tuning PyDict_MINSIZE could > help. If you have many objects of the same type, am I right assuming > they all have the same number of dictionary keys? If so, what is the > dictionary size? Do they use ma_smalltable, or do they have an extra > ma_table?
But the space savings by using __slots__ is so much bigger! (And less work than hacking the C code too. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
