[Python-3000] pythond: A system wide python daemon?

[Guido van Rossum]

This is not a Py3k topic. I suspect this can be done easily today if
you need it. Please post to comp.lang.python instead.

--Guido

On 5/7/06, JustFillBug <mozbugbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to include a python daemon that will shorten startup time
> and share most stdlib among all the python instances? If extension
> libraries like pygtk can also be sured in memory, then maybe the total
> memory usage can be greatly reduced for python gui applications. That
> will encourage people write more python GUI application without worrying
> bloatness in memory requirment:
>
> A simple:
> Python 2.3.5 (#2, Mar  6 2006, 10:12:24)
> [GCC 4.0.3 20060304 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-10)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import pygtk;pygtk.require('2.0')
> >>> import gtk
> >>> w = gtk.Window()
> >>>
>
> Cause:
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> user     26585  0.6  1.1  18676  9280 pts/6    T    10:48   0:00 python
>
>
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