Python memory management

[Michael Hudson]

"Marcelo A. Camelo" <camelo at esss.com.br> writes:

> Currently, the most popular platform for game applications are videogame
> consoles. Memory on these special purpose machines are a premium
> resource and one should used it judiciously. Python's RTE footprint and
> memory fragmentation issues make it a hard sell for game programmers
> (many tend to prefer LUA).

Um, *I*, at least, would say they have a point.  I love Python and
think it has many, many virtues, but being miserly with RAM is not one
of them (at least, for the current implementation).

If you're on a real PC, things are very different, of course.

Cheers,
mwh

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