On 4/24/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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. :-)
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