[Baypiggies] Memory usage

[Aahz]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
>
> I saw a talk at PyCon two years ago that said that Python would never
> give memory back to the OS.  That's probably changed, but I'd check
> first.

That's "partly changed", not "probably changed".  ;-)  PyMalloc does
change the way Python interacts with malloc(), but many OSes never return
memory to the system free pool until an application exits.  OTOH, it
mostly doesn't matter, either: even when it's not returned to the general
OS pool, memory that is free()'d is usually marked such that it doesn't
require physical RAM.
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