Is Python suitable for a huge, enterprise size app?

Neil Hodgson nyamatongwe+thunder at gmail.com
Wed May 18 19:33:58 EDT 2005


Steve M:

> ... discusses the problem with memory allocation in CPython. 
 > Apparently CPython is not good at, or incapable of, releasing
 > memory back to the operating system.

    I'm fairly sure Java does not give memory back to the operating 
system either. A quick search did not give a definitive answer but there 
were complaints from people about not being able to do this.

    Neil



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