>>>>> neokosmos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering what the approximate amount of memory needed to load a > Python interpreter (only, no objects, no scripts, no nothing else) in a > Linux 2.6 environment. According to ps, it appears to be 3312 bytes, > which seems absurdly low to me. However, when I check the size of my > Python executable, it looks like it is only about 5600 bytes in size, > so maybe this is reasonable?
It is, when you consider that ps reports in kilobytes :-). It's meaningless just to compare the size of the python binary. In your case it's obvious that the python binary is linking to a shared python library. Ganesan -- Ganesan Rajagopal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
