Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: > On Ter, 2007-10-30 at 17:10 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: >> (Though, I do think python is questionable for tray icons and daemons, >> since for whatever reason each python / pygtk process is so huge. > > Well, last I checked, the cpython implementation *never* releases memory > back to the OS. This is why I can't really understand why so many things > in gnome are done in python. I mean, check your rhythmbox before and > after you load a python plugin. I really like python's philosophy and > syntax but this memory use behavior continues to drive me away from it > and from apps written in it. Anyway, yea, this is quite a tangent here.
This changed in Python 2.5 which is now widely distributed. Johan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
