[Python-Dev] Benchmarking Python 3.3 against Python 2.7 (wide build)

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

> Interesting results!
>
> Another data point for the benchmarks that would be interesting is memory
> consumption of the python process during the runs.
>
> In 3.3 a reasonable place to gather this would be to add a callback to the
> new gc.callbacks and save a snapshot of the process's memory usage before
> every collection to gather peak, average and median usage over the life of
> the process.  2.7 doesn't have this feature but there is a backport of this
> to 2.7 in the bugtracker.
>
> I guess I should join speed@ :)
>
>
There is already support in perf.py to track memory:

-m, --track_memory    Track memory usage. This only works on Linux.
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