On Feb 22, 10:53 am, a bunch of folks wrote:
> Memory is basically free.
This is true if you are simply scanning a file into memory. However,
I'm storing the contents in some in-memory data structures and doing
some data manipulation. This is my speculation:
Several small objects per scanned
> Why do you want that? And no, it is not possible. And to be honest:
I have
> no idea why e.g. the JVM allows for this.
>
> Diez
The reason why is simply that I know roughly how much memory I'm going
to need, and cpython seems to be taking a fair amount of time
extending its heap as I read in co
I have an application that scans and processes a bunch of text files.
The content I'm pulling out and holding in memory is at least 200MB.
I'd love to be able to tell the CPython virtual machine that I need a
heap of, say 300MB up front rather than have it grow as needed. I've
had a scan through
