On Jan 21, 2010, at 7:25 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> We seek guidance from the community on >> an acceptable level of increased memory usage. > > I think a 10-20% increase would be acceptable.
It would be hard for me to put an exact number on what I would find acceptable, but I was really hoping that we could get a *reduced* memory footprint in the long term. My real concern here is not absolute memory usage, but usage for each additional Python process on a system; even if Python supported fast, GIL-free multithreading, I'd still prefer the additional isolation of multiprocess concurrency. As it currently stands, starting cores+1 Python processes can start to really hurt, especially in many-core-low-RAM environments like the Playstation 3. So, if memory usage went up by 20%, but per-interpreter overhead were decreased by more than that, I'd personally be happy. _______________________________________________ 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
