python memory usage

[A. Lloyd Flanagan]

Peter Maas <fpetermaas at netscape.net> wrote in message news:<c0q354$p0f$1 at swifty.westend.com>...
> In a recent discussion somebody claimed that python executable has
> a huge memory consumption compared to perl and tcl, about 18 MB.
> I didn't believe that and checked on my machine (SusE 7.3, Linux
> 2.4, Perl 5.6.1, Python 2.3.2, Tcl 8.3), command
> ps -o "cmd rss vsize", results in kBytes:
> 
> CMD               RSS   VSZ
> perl              984  2760
> python           2556  4188
> tclsh8.3         1100  2316
> 

Has anybody got comparable figures for a Java process?