Tree structure consuming lot of memory

[mayank gupta]

Thanks for the other possibilites. I would consider option (2) and (3) to
improve my code.

But out of curiosity, I would still like to know why does an object of a
Python-class consume "so" much of memory (1.4 kb), and this memory usage has
nothing to do with its attributes.

Thanks

Regards.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:55 AM, mayank gupta<mooniitk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am creating a tree data-structure in python; with nodes of the tree
> > created by a simple class :
> >
> > class Node :
> >        def __init__(self , .... other attributes):
> >               # initialise the attributes here!!
> >
> > But the problem is I am working with a huge tree (millions of nodes); and
> > each node is consuming much more memory than it should. After a little
> > analysis, I found out that in general it uses about 1.4 kb of memory for
> > each node!!
> > I will be grateful if someone could help me optimize the memory usage.
>
> (1) Use __slots__ (see
> http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#slots)
> (2) Use some data structure other than a tree
> (3) Rewrite your Node/Tree implementation in C
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
> --
> http://blog.rebertia.com
>



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