[Python-Dev] Reduce memory footprint of Python

[Greg Ewing]

R. David Murray wrote:
> I can give you one data point: a mobile platform that (currently) uses
> Python3, and does not use linecache because of how much memory it
> consumes.

Wouldn't a sensible approach be to discard the linecache
when you've finished generating a traceback? You're not
likely to be generating tracebacks often enough to be
worth keeping it from one to the next.

-- 
Greg