Op 2005-05-20, Dieter Maurer schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on Thu, 19 May 2005 09:54:15 +0200: >> ... >> and unless your operating system is totally braindead, and thus completely >> unfit >> to run huge enterprise size applications, that doesn't really matter much. >> leaks >> are problematic, large peak memory use isn't. > > Could you elaborate a bit? > > Large peak memory use means that the application got a large > address space. What garantees that the residual memory use > (after the peak) is compact and not evenly spread across > the address space.
Well nothing. But how do you want to return memory back to the O.S. when the residual memory use isn't compact and evenly spread across the address space? -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
