Python C API String Memory Consumption

[Carl Banks]

On Apr 9, 11:23 pm, Hrvoje Niksic <hnik... at xemacs.org> wrote:
> a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
> > BTW, note that if you're using Python 2.x, range(1000000) will cause
> > a "leak" because ints are never freed.  Instead, use xrange().
>
> Note that using xrange() won't help with that particular problem.

I think it will because with xrange the integers will not all have to
exist at one time, so Python doesn't have to increase the size of the
integer pool to a million.


Carl Banks