Is Python lightweight?

[Rene Pijlman]

kk:
>Maybe I should re-format my question. What tool should I use to
>measure the memory usage?  On Windows XP, I have tried Performance
>Monitor, and it doesn't have anything obvious to me.  

Ctrl-Alt-Del / Task manager / Processes / View / Select columns.

I suggest to look add the following columns: 
- CPU
- Mem usage
- VM size
- handles
- threads
- I/O Reads
- I/O Writes

Some of these fields are somewhat explained in the online help.

In Performance Monitor you need to do Right mouse / Add
counters, select "Performance object" and then memory etc. Its
actually quite powerful (try some other performance objects).

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René Pijlman