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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Oct 6 22:40:28 CEST 2013

On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:27:52 +0200 martin at v.loewis.de wrote:

Quoting Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>: >> 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? And of those, how many use the linecache module?

The linecache module is used implicitly by the traceback and warnings module, so perhaps quite a bit more than one would imagine :-)

I think limiting the linecache cache size would be good enough.

Regards

Antoine.

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