[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: Python memory use (was: Maemo 2.0 final release available)

[From: Ross Burton]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 16:38 +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 09:15 -0300, ext Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> > On 7/10/06, Tommi Komulainen <tommi.komulainen at nokia.com> wrote:
> > >      2. memory consumption
> > >      4. run-time speed?
> > 
> > These are not an issue, really. Since python does garbage collect, in
> > the long run it may show even more memory efficient than pure C, which
> > may leak.
> 
> Memory leaks in C are fixable, just takes some effort. OTOH the python
> interpreter / wrapper overhead are not. I've also been told that python
> never releases memory back to the system, though that ought to be
> fixable. Whether those are significant issues I haven't measured, just
> some rough edges to keep in mind.

PyGTK also initialises every type in GTK+ at startup instead of
on-demand (as with C applications), which is part of the slow
startup/high memory usage problem.

Ross
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