Re: Online Desktop and GNOME 2.22

[Johan Dahlin <johan gnome org>]

Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
> On Ter, 2007-10-30 at 17:10 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > (Though, I do think python is questionable for tray icons and daemons, 
> > since for whatever reason each python / pygtk process is so huge.
>
> Well, last I checked, the cpython implementation *never* releases memory
> back to the OS. This is why I can't really understand why so many things
> in gnome are done in python. I mean, check your rhythmbox before and
> after you load a python plugin. I really like python's philosophy and
> syntax but this memory use behavior continues to drive me away from it
> and from apps written in it. Anyway, yea, this is quite a tangent here.

This changed in Python 2.5 which is now widely distributed.

Johan