Where'd my memory go? (was Re: [Python-Dev] Dictionary sparseness)

[Harri Pasanen]

Speaking of memory consumption, has the memory footprint of Python 
changed significantly from 2.2 to 2.3?

I've been toying with the idea of making a small python ever since I 
compiled Python 1.0 for MS-DOS box with 512Kb of memory.   I've 
scanned at the Palm Python stuff, but I did not have a clear picture 
if they really did everything possible to make it small, including 
changing the representation of internal structs, or did they just 
chop away the complex type, parser, compiler, etc?

Regards,

Harri