[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Python import.c,2.210,2.211 (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:23:21 +1300 (NZDT)

Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com>:

Something that's been bothering me about frozen modules in the classical sense (i.e. those that are stored in C static data structures) is that the memory used by them is gone without any chance at recovery.

With virtual memory, that's probably not a problem, since it'll get paged out after it's been used.

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