Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
All large-scale language implementations with automatic storage management that I know of use compacting storage schemes, e.g. copying garbage collectors (maybe generational, multi-threaded/realtime, or whatever). I think Python will have to do the same, sooner or later. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
