Ant wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was wondering what the approximate amount of memory needed to load a > > Python interpreter (only, no objects, no scripts, no nothing else) in a > > Linux 2.6 environment. According to ps, it appears to be 3312 bytes, > > which seems absurdly low to me. However, when I check the size of my > > Python executable, it looks like it is only about 5600 bytes in size, > > so maybe this is reasonable? > > Are you sure ps is reporting in bytes not KB? The bare interpreter in > Windows is 3368KB.
Where did you get that from? With Python 2.4.3, on my machine (Win XP SP2): C:\junk>dir \python24\python* [snip] 29/03/2006 05:35 PM 4,608 python.exe 29/03/2006 05:35 PM 1,871,872 python24.dll 29/03/2006 05:35 PM 5,120 pythonw.exe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
