Python memory use (psyco, C++)

[Roy Smith]

In article <pan.2004.06.21.16.38.30.665506 at gmail.com>,
 Tyler Eaves <tylere at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:28:33 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
> 
> > I know all of the above is very vague, but I'm just trying to get a 
> > rough idea if a Python implementation is feasable (or at least 
> > plausable).  If a C++ version takes 300 Mbytes and a Python version 
> > takes 1 Gig, that's probably not going to work.  Are there any rules of 
> > thumb I could use to get a first-order estimate?
> 
> Why wouldn't it work? Memory is still quite cheap. If this is an app of
> any complexity, the development time saved vs C++ will probably far more
> than additional memory would cost.

Because memory use is one of the constraints I was given to work with.