Quesion about the proper use of __slots__

[Alex Martelli]

<bonono at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter Otten wrote:
> > > He could be working on a machine with < 1M RAM or some other
> > > constraints.
> >
> > I have 256K, by the way.
> >
> Impressive, curious to know what kind of environment it is as it has
> been a long time I have seen such limited spec. My first x86(IBM PC)
> had more than that.

I believe some cellphones and similarly limited devices may go as low as
256k, but I don't think anybody's running Python today on any device
with less than a MB (and more likely more).

The first PC _I_ owned had 4K of RAM (the cheaper model only had 1K, but
I splurged for the big one) -- Sinclair ZX80.  But I didn't run Python
on it (indeed I soon swapped it for one with very similar HW but Forth
instead of Basic, called the "Jupiter Ace": Forth's force has always
been the ability to run with incredibly-little memory).


Alex