Re: GDB and scripting languages - which

Robert Dewar
2007-02-14T20:56:47Z

Jim Blandy wrote:

> In the tests shown here, Python uses about 2.4x as much memory as Lua,
> and 4% as much memory as GDB does debugging itself, having set and hit
> a breakpoint on main.

Thanks Jim for getting some quantitative data into this
discussion.
>
> I think both Python and Lua's resource consumption is reasonable for
> our application.

Indeed, I think these figures show that resource consumption is
not a factor in the decision.