forwarding to the list , sorry ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Olemis Lang <ole...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:09:38 -0500 Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Reduce memory footprint of Python To: Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org>
On 10/6/13, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > 2013/10/6 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com>: >> 2013/10/6 Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org>: >>> 2013/10/6 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com>: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Slowly, I'm trying to see if it would be possible to reduce the memory >>>> footprint of Python using the tracemalloc module. >>>> >>>> First, I noticed that linecache can allocate more than 2 MB. What do >>>> you think of adding a registry of "clear cache" functions? For >>>> exemple, re.purge() and linecache.clearcache(). gc.collect() clears >>>> free lists. I don't know if gc.collect() should be related to this new >>>> registy (clear all caches) or not. >>> >>> What is the usecase for minimizing the memory usage of Python in the >>> middle of a program? >> >> If you know that your application uses a lot of memory, it is >> interesting to sometimes (when the application is idle) try to release >> some bytes to not use all the system memory. On embedded devices, >> memory is expensive and very limited. Each byte is important :-) > > How many embedded systems are running Python? > <ot> I know of a few of them, and it seems they will be more popular with the growing interest for devices like Raspberry Pi and technologies like 3D printing e.g. http://raspberry-python.blogspot.com/ </ot> -- Regards, Olemis - @olemislc Apache™ Bloodhound contributor http://issues.apache.org/bloodhound http://blood-hound.net Blog ES: http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/ Blog EN: http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/ Featured article: Popularidad de Python, septiembre 2013 - http://goo.gl/fb/tr0XB _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
