Dec. 1, 2007
3:12 p.m.
Manlio Perillo wrote:
You see the memory growing because the Python interpreter will not release the memory to the operating system
This was true until CPython 2.4: the 2.5 version does actually release unused memory to the operating system. Python Memory Management Part 3: The Saga is Over http://evanjones.ca/python-memory-part3.html -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Restricting yourself to the intersection of the two versions [Python 2.6 and 3.0] is very painful and limited. We're not introducing backwards compatibility syntax in 3.0, because that would defeat the purpose (we've had backwards compatibility forever in 2.x, and the whole point of 3.0 is to clean up the mess). -- Guido van Rossum, July 2007