[Python-Dev] Dictionary sparseness

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:57, Alex Martelli wrote:
> On Monday 05 May 2003 07:46 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > No thanks.  I've paid my dues and I hope I will *NEVER* again have to
> > > work with a system that thinks it's so smart it doesn't need my advisory
> > > input -- or at least not on anything that's as performance-crucial as
> > > those Fortran programs were [...]
> >
> > I severely doubt that any Python apps are as performance-critical as
> > those Fortran programs were.
> 
> Yes, this may well be correct.  My only TRUE wish for tuning performance
> of Python applications is to have SOME ways to measure memory
> footprints with sensible guesses about where they come from -- THAT
> is where I might gain hugely (by fighting excessive working sets through
> selective flushing of caches, freelists, etc).

Any idea how to actually do this?

Jeremy