From: baalbek <rcs@...>
Date: 2006-03-14T09:13:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Python a hungrier beast than Ruby?

Aaron Lee wrote:
> baalbek wrote:
> 
>>I simply ran the Python wx application with one of the wxPanels, and the
>>Ruby wx app with 10 of the wxPanels (including the wxPanel Python ran).
>>
>>Then I checked the memory usage for each application (by the resource
>>manager in Windows).
> 
> 
> Windows may be doing something funny with the shared libraries. Just for 
> kicks, what does it look like when you open the Ruby one first, then the 
> Python one?
> 

Same thing, whichever I open first.

HOWEVER, I might have found the cause:

the ruby application uses a database connection through drb, while the 
Python application uses its own database connection.

My bad, that I did not think of this before posting on the ng...sorry!

Baalbek