[Pythonmac-SIG] memory size for Python applets?

[William Burrow]

On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 10:43:46AM -0700, Sean Hummel wrote:
> >allocation I have refrained from trying to use the system heap. If these 
> >assumptions are wrong, please tell me so: it would be *much* nicer to have 
> >Python use temporary memory, so you wouldn't have to be fiddling the 
> >application size everytime you run a big script.
> 
> I know, I had the same problem with it when I first started using Temp
> memory.  However in our case (RealPlayer that is,) most people aren't going
> to be using another application when running our player.  
> 
> I'd say that the same is true for Python, most people run a Python script,
> and wait for it to finish anyway.  I don't think Python is used for
> background tasks as frequently.  I might be wrong, but that's how I see it.

What about people using Python for CGI?  In my case, I plan to run
a Gadfly server on a Mac web server.  What impact does that have?

-- 
William Burrow, VE9WIL
Perl and Python spoken here.