[Python-Dev] [ python-Patches-876206 ] scary frame speed hacks (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Mar 2 19:29:00 EST 2004

Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net>:

BTW, if a gazillion distinct functions run when starting up a large app, do we hang on to the memory for their gazillion distinct frames forever?

If you have a gazillion distinct functions in memory at once, you've got a gazillion code objects, plus associated function objects, arg name tuples, etc... Adding a stack frame to each of these probably won't make a huge difference, relatively speaking.

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