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Richard Lewis
richardlewis at fastmail.co.uk
Thu Nov 16 08:05:15 EST 2006
On Thursday 16 November 2006 12:47, Julien Cigar wrote: > (how "heavy" is a Python interpreter ?) ? > Assuming you're on Unix, I would suggest that you try it out. Try loading some python processing and importing the modules that you use. Then drop back into the shell and go: repeat: $ python -ic "import my_module" & several times $ ps aux | head -1 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND $ ps aux | grep python r 7884 0.5 1.6 11964 8576 pts/4 T 13:00 0:00 python -ic import m r 7885 0.4 1.6 11972 8576 pts/4 T 13:00 0:00 python -ic import m r 7886 0.7 1.6 11964 8576 pts/4 T 13:00 0:00 python -ic import m r 7887 0.5 1.6 11972 8580 pts/4 T 13:00 0:00 python -ic import m r 7888 0.6 1.6 11964 8576 pts/4 T 13:00 0:00 python -ic import m r 7889 0.5 1.6 11964 8576 pts/4 T 13:00 0:00 python -ic import m r 7892 1.5 1.6 11964 8576 pts/4 T 13:00 0:00 python -ic import m r 7894 0.0 0.1 1952 632 pts/4 S+ 13:00 0:00 grep python As you can see, my python processes are each using 1.6% of my computer's 512MB of RAM. Its not the most accurate test, but its quite fun ;-) Cheers, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis Sonic Arts Research Archive http://www.sara.uea.ac.uk/ JID: ironchicken at jabber.earth.li -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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