[Python-Dev] Reduce memory footprint of Python (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Sun Oct 6 22:22:08 CEST 2013


Benjamin wrote:

Is it important to optimize unittests for memory usage?

2013/10/6 Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net>:

That does not seem very important, except if people execute testimport on every interpreter startup :)

Oh, I just realized that I forgot to explain why I'm starting with unit tests. I ran the Python test suite using -X tracemalloc (tracing all memory allocations) because the test suite is a nice tool to stress a new module (tracemalloc). The test suite creates many threads, subprocesses, send random signals, etc.

That's why I started to monitor the test suite. I know that it's not the most critical part of Python :-)

Victor



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